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 "&quoted form of posix path of aFolder

-Mark
Who likes touching folders.