On Nov 6, 2012, at 3:43 PM, John Day <
email@hidden> wrote:
> I forgot the try block ( which was the point of the question)
>
> try
> tell application "Finder"
> activate -- used here and at end
> set winTarget to target of front window as alias
> end tell
> tell application "System Events" to delete (every file of winTarget whose name = ".DS_Store")
> end try
>
> On Nov 6, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Robert Poland wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Running from Smile AND Applescript Editor, when pointed at a CD the following script errors out and won't run;
>>
>> tell application "Finder"
>> activate
>> tell window 1 -- clears out Finder idiosyncrasies
>> tell application "Finder" -- used here and at end
>> set winTarget to target of front window as alias
>> end tell
>> set fileList to list folder winTarget with invisibles
>> try
>> if fileList contains ".DS_Store" then
>> delete item ".DS_Store"
>> end if
>> end try
>> end tell
>> end tell
>>
>>
>> Robert Poland
>> 2.7 GHz Intel Core I5, 27” iMac
>> 12 GB Ram, 1TB HD
>> OS X 10.8.2 (12C54)