> On Oct 22, 2007, at 18:22, Levon Spradlin wrote:
> 
>> Am I doing something wrong?
>> 
>> tell application "Finder"
>>     set theDesktop to path to desktop as Unicode text
>> end tell
>> 
>> Finder got an error: Can't make desktop into type constant.
>> 

Try this:
 
tell application "Finder"
    set myDesktop to desktop as Unicode text
end tell

Or, outside a "Finder" tell, try this:

set theDesktop to path to desktop as Unicode text

Or this

set theDesktop to path to "desk" as Unicode text


I'm not sure why 

Path to "Desk" as unicode text

works, but it seems to. I wouldn't recommend "path to" inside a Finder tell,
especially when it's not needed.

HTH,

ES