On 14/11/2012, at 11:13 AM, "Stockly, Ed" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Since it was working before Mountain Lion, with, presumably, similar file > sizes and numbers of items, I'm thinking the advantage of text item > delimiters is that now you can use a list of items as delimiters, which > could work better than doing the repeat loop and the "contains" test. Except that could result in a much bigger initial list, one big enough to choke AS regardless. We don't really have enough information to know. > Unless there is some reason why a doing this on a list with thousands of > items would have worked before mountain lion but not work with mountain > lion. > > Do we know of a mountain lion specific issue? No, but trying without the scripting addition might help nail down where it's happening. As might showing the code in more detail. -- Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]> 'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>