I have seen things like that happen elsewhere. Rerunning the 1000 test I am seeing it happen. I would say grab the list of files and then work your way through one at a time. another option is do shell script "cd " & quoted form of POSIX path of mainfolder & "; ls *.xml" and then break that into a list. On May 12, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Christopher Green wrote: > Hmm. More testing to come, I guess. Might be some variation of name > of fi= > les > whose name ends with ".xxx" or something ... > > (which I realize you can't do as a test w/o a try block because > 'name of'= > > assumes files existing) > > I'll have to find some time later to devote to this > > oh yeah, thanks for the reply, Mark! >