On Mar 29, 2013, at 6:00 PM, Shane Stanley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On 30/03/2013, at 2:11 AM, Bill Steele <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> I'm in the habit of using "as string" because Applescript sometimes treated concatenation as the creation of a list.
> 
> There's only a list involved if the first item is not a string, and if that's the case you're better off coercing just that item first. It's more efficient, and it avoids precisely the problem you are seeing.
> 
Seems like "path to desktop as string" should have taken care of that. 


Bill Steele
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