On Dec 11, 2013, at 09:12, Walter Ian Kaye <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > It seems I can get either a whose clause filtered list of file objects *or* an alias list, but I can't seem to get both. Been trying various syntax. ______________________________________________________________________ Hey Walter, As far as I know it can't be done pre-Mavericks. However this does work on Mavericks: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- tell application "Finder" set _target to target of front window as alias set fileList to (files of _target whose name extension is "dmg") as alias list end tell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Mavericks this is what I used to do when I wanted to convert Finder-References to an alias list: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- on makeAliasList(_list) tell application "Finder" repeat with i in _list set contents of i to (i as alias) end repeat return _list end tell end makeAliasList ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- tell application "Finder" set _target to target of front window as alias set fileList to (files of _target whose name extension is "dmg") as alias list end tell makeAliasList(fileList) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Best Regards, Chris