On 8/14/07 11:46 AM, jeff donovan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Can someone give me some guidance on how i can have a script read a > file list of names and create a folder with that name? > > example > read file list1 > list1 contains ( bob, joe, doc, foo ) > > make new folder for each name Jeff, Simplistically, something like this does it: set folderNames to {"bob", "joe", "doc", "foo"} repeat with aName in folderNames tell application "Finder" make new folder with properties {name:aName} end tell end repeat This will create four folders on the desktop (there's no error-checking to see if folders with these names already exist there). It's an easy tweak to have them created somewhere else. Hope that helps, Bill