On Aug 14, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Mark Lively wrote: > On Aug 14, 2007, at 12:55 PM, jeff donovan wrote: > >> >> thanks for the reply Bill, >> >> yes close. How can I >> >> set folderNames to ( read from file.txt ) ? >> > set folderNames to every paragraph of (read (choose file)) > > where the file has one folder name per line. > thanks that worked great! set folderNames to every paragraph of (read (choose file)) repeat with aName in folderNames tell application "Finder" make new folder with properties {name:aName} end tell end repeat