At 8:35 PM -0400 5/26/03, Chip Griffin wrote: >Why does this script: > >-- Begin Script >set theItem to {alias "Macintosh HD:Users:chip:Pictures:dog_cats.jpg"} >tell application "Finder" > set comment of item theItem to "Test Test" >end tell >-- End Script > >Yield this error: > "Finder got this error: A descriptor type mismatch occurred." > >I receive the same error if I tried to set a variable to the "comment >of item theItem". Because theItem is a list that can contain more than one item. One of these should work: -- set theItem to alias "Macintosh HD:Users:chip:Pictures:dog_cats.jpg" tell application "Finder" set comment of theItem to "Test Test" end tell -- -- set theItem to {alias "Macintosh HD:Users:chip:Pictures:dog_cats.jpg"} tell application "Finder" set comment of item 1 of theItem to "Test Test" end tell -- -- Rob Jorgensen Ohio, USA