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.

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