Error during command authentication.
Error - unable to initiate communication with LISTSERV (errno=10061, phase=CONNECT, target=127.0.0.1:2306). The server is probably not started.
On 5/26/03 5:35 PM, "Chip Griffin" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Why does this script: > > -- Begin Script > set theItem to {alias "Macintosh HD:Users:chip:Pictures:dog_cats.jpg"} > tell application "Finder" > set comment of item theItem to "Test Test" > end tell > -- End Script > > Yield this error: > "Finder got this error: A descriptor type mismatch occurred." > > I receive the same error if I tried to set a variable to the "comment > of item theItem". You've managed to make the most convoluted expression out of the simplest things. For a start. { } braces in AppleScript define a list or a record. they can't be used like parentheses just to mean "I want to keep the stuff here together." So: {alias "Macintosh HD:Users:chip:Pictures:dog_cats.jpg"} is a list containing one item, an alias. What do you need a list for? Naturally the Finder is upset: it can't set comments of AppleScript lists, only of Finder items (files, folders, disks). But it objects before it even tries to set a comment: simply the expression item {someList} is all wrong. An AppleScript list can't be a Finder item. In addition, the Finder will coerce your alias to a file or folder without the extra 'item' (though that will coerce too). So: set theItem to alias "Macintosh HD:Users:chip:Pictures:dog_cats.jpg" tell application "Finder" to set comment of theItem to "Test Test" (To avoid all coercions, you would do: set filePath to "Macintosh HD:Users:chip:Pictures:dog_cats.jpg" tell application "Finder" to set comment of item filePath to "Test Test" ) -- Paul Berkowitz