On Mar 4, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Emmett Gray wrote: > I've found a bug (10.4.11) which is probably still in Leopard since > I looked at the Leopard bug fix technote and it's not mentioned. > I've reported the bug to Apple. > Looks like it is fixed in leopard. Not to surprising since the old system event osax was built on top of FSRefs which are deprecated in Leopard. > If the target folder of the "list folder" command has a name longer > than 32 characters you get a "bad filename" error. I can't use the > Finder to get the info because the very reason I'm needing the > command for is to force the lazy Finder to update the contents of > the folder! > I use touch to update the folder. set aFolder to choose folder do shell script "touch ""ed form of posix path of aFolder -Mark Who likes touching folders.