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On Nov 6, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Stan Cleveland <email@hidden> wrote:

On Nov 6, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Robert Poland wrote:

Running from Smile AND Applescript Editor, when pointed at a CD the following script errors out and won't run;

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Hi Robert,

Here's my take on what's needed to achieve your goal:

tell application "Finder"
activate
tell window 1 -- clears out Finder idiosyncrasies (will take your word on that)
tell application "Finder"
set winTarget to target of front window as alias
end tell
end tell
end tell
set fileList to list folder winTarget with invisibles -- from standard additions — should not be inside a 'tell'
if fileList contains ".DS_Store" then
tell application "Finder" -- 'tell window 1' and 'try' are not needed
delete item ("" & winTarget & ".DS_Store") -- needs a full path
end tell
end if

HTH,
Stan C.

Stan,

This is part of a script that is applied to all finder windows. If it is applied to a CD window it should not error, which is what your script does. That was the reason for the try block.

References:
	>Re: "try" broke??? (From: Stan Cleveland <email@hidden>)