At 8:01 pm -0700 5/7/07, Brian Johnson wrote: > tell application "URL Access Scripting" > set x to download this_url to file (local_filepath) >replacing yes without progress and unpacking > end tell > >It is important that the local_path (all parts but the file) exists >before you do this. Just to be clear, the file itself does not need to exist, only the directory where UAS will create or rewrite it: set _uri to "http://www.google.co.uk/ig?hl=en" set _path to (path to desktop as Unicode text) & "google.html" set _file to _path as file specification tell application "URL Access Scripting" download _uri to _file replacing yes end tell JD