By way of example, I converted the previous snippet into this, which runs on my machine in Script Editor. Hopefully it will work in yours too... -- Brian Johnson set this_url to "http://www.apple.com/index.html" set local_filepath to (path to desktop) as string set local_filepath to local_filepath & "a.b" display dialog local_filepath with timeout of 100 seconds tell application "URL Access Scripting" set x to download this_url to file (local_filepath) replacing yes without progress and unpacking end tell end timeout