On Jun 28, 2007, at 8:18 AM, James Nierodzik wrote:
The second resolves because you are not resolving an alias. path
to startup disk as text returns just that text.
Now if you were to try this
alias ((path to startup disk as text) & "this file does not exist")
then yes it would fail.
I inadvertently omitted "alias" when transcribing in the message, but
it does not fail when "alias" is there.
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