On Apr 01, 2013, at 08:59, Bill Steele <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Seems like "path to desktop as string" should have taken care of that. ______________________________________________________________________ set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "•" (path to desktop as text) & "someFileName.txt" --> "Disk:Users:mine:Desktop:someFileName.txt" { Mac OS 10.8.3 } -- Chris