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Glennfield · Apr 18, 2002, 06:02 PM

I'm having trouble with an AppleScript called "Tandem" (from http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...11127022706921 ) - specifically, it worked under OS X before, but since at least the 10.1.3 update, it hasn't.

My code, which is a slight variation of the original, but worked before the update:

<BLOCKQUOTE>code:<HR><pre> set startup_disk to (path to startup disk)

tell application "Finder"
activate

set this_window to make new Finder window
set the target of this_window to the startup_disk
set the bounds of this_window to {0, 46, 1100, 440}
set the current view of this_window to column view

set this_window to make new Finder window
set the target of this_window to the startup_disk
set the bounds of this_window to {0, 468, 1100, 926}
set the current view of this_window to column view

end tell [/code]

What the code should do and used to do was open two Finder windows, each filling roughly the entire width and half the height of my screen, and each displaying the root level of my hard disk, Mjollnir.

Upon attempting to run this script now, a new window opens, then I get the error message 'Finder got an error: Can't set target of Finder window id ## to alias "Mjollnir:"'. The id number ## increments each time I try to run the script, but the rest of the message remains consistent.

If I comment out the "set the target..." line and try again, I get the error "Finder got an error: Can't set bounds of Finder window id ## to {0, 46, 1100, 440}".

Commenting out that line as well, I get the error "Finder got an error: Can't set current view of Finder window id ## to column view."

Any thoughts as to what's going on? I don't really know AppleScript, but it looks to me like the Finder "dictionary" still contains all of those terms, so why do they no longer work? Any help is appreciated.