On Dec 6, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Bill Steele wrote: > I have a script that does some text processing, saves a file, then opens the file in Tex-Edit Plus. Since I upgraded to Snow Leopard that no longer works. Tex-Edit Plus just opens an empty window. > > So I turned on Record, used Tex-Edit to open a file. Got the same thing I already have in my script: > > tell application "Tex-Edit Plus" > activate > open file "Bill'sHD:Users:billsteele:Desktop:foo.txt" > end tell > > But when I run the recorded script, it opens the same empty untitled window. (Note: Tex-Edit preferences are set to *not* open an empty window on activation.) > > This was in the new "Applescript Editor." I still have the old Script Editor, but it doesn't work in that either, and Script Editor tends to quit now and then. > > Tried the same procedure on another machine running Leopard, and it works properly. > > Suggestions? Have you tried with posix paths or aliases? -Mark