Mark is right. Plus, if you simply put your line inside a finder tell block it would also work. tell application "Finder" set myList to {document file "12266_Aviator.psG01.TIF" of folder "12266_Aviator" of folder "Hold for V30" of disk "prepress" of application "Finder", document file "12266_Aviator.psG00.TIF" of folder "12266_Aviator" of folder "Hold for V30" of disk "prepress" of application "Finder"} end tell ES On 07/15/09 10:15 AM, "Mark Lively" wrote: > On Jul 15, 2009, at 12:06 PM, RJay Hansen wrote: > >> set myList to {document file "12266_Aviator.psG01.TIF" of folder >> "12266_Aviator" of folder "Hold for V30" of disk "prepress" of >> application >> "Finder", document file "12266_Aviator.psG00.TIF" of folder >> "12266_Aviator" of folder "Hold for V30" of disk "prepress" of >> application >> "Finder"} > > This is a list of finder objects. Which makes sense inside of a > Finder tell block. > > if you had said > > tell application "Finder" > set fileList to every file of tiffFolder as alias list > end tell > > you would have received. > > {alias "prepress:Hold for V30:12266_Aviator:12266_Aviator.psG01.TIF", > alias"prepress:Hold for V30:12266_Aviator:12266_Aviator.psG01.TIF"} > > which compiles. > > -Mark > Who is ready to go on vacation.