Aha. Thank you. It does indeed work without the loop. System Events
properly waits for a meaningful result (a couple of seconds of
calculation on a large home folder), whereas the Finder did not and
had to be repeatedly asked.
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:50:06 +1000, Shane Stanley
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>tell application "System Events" to set mySize to (size of alias myFolder)
>
>on my home folder, and there doesn't seem to be any need for a loop.>