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