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On Jul 7, 2013, at 4:59 AM, Manoah F. Adams <email@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I've tried your script on a Tiger (OS-X 10.4) system and it works perfectly.

Maybe Apple has in newer versions of the OS/Automator decided to run it (its scripts that is) under a dedicated user and-or group.
If so, the Desktop path may not even exist and will certainly not be the one you want any way.

Try running just " display dialog (path to desktop as string) " to make sure your getting the actual path you want.

That correctly returns my path to desktop.

You can also check...
do shell script "echo $USER"
display dialog result

But, this raises a blank dialog box with "OK" and "Cancel" buttons. It does not return my name as AppleScript does.

I guess I'll stick with my work around for now. It may also be my system which hasn't had a clean install since mid 2010 (Snow Leopard).

Thanks to everyone for your help. I'll try this again after I clean install 10.9.1.

On Jul 6, 2013, at 13:13 , Lists wrote:

The following simple script for naming and saving a currently open TextEdit document works from AppleScript but fails under Automator.

set file_name to "Gotcha "
set c_date to (do shell script "date +%Y%m%d_%H.%M.%S")
set file_path to (path to desktop as string) & file_name & c_date & ".rtfd"
tell application "TextEdit"
close document 1 saving in file file_path
end tell

Is it possible to do this with Automator? I have a work around, but it is so ugly I'm embarrassed to reveal it. The last step of the Automator workflow sends a keystroke command via AppleScript to FastScripts which performs the save :-\

delay 2
tell application "Finder" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Finder"
keystroke "s" using {control down, command down}
end tell
end tell

References:
	>AppleScript fails in Automator - Permissions error (From: Lists <email@hidden>)
	>Re: AppleScript fails in Automator - Permissions error (From: "Manoah F. Adams" <email@hidden>)