At 7:56 pm -0500 23/12/00, Chris Nandor wrote: >At 0:39 +0000 2000.12.24, John Delacour wrote: >>The following script >> >> use Mac::MoreFiles; >> $creatorType = 'ToyS'; >> $app = FSpDTGetAPPL 'D', "$creatorType"; >> print "$/$app"; >> >>Fails to find any applications on my startup partition. >My guess is you might need to rebuild your desktop file (restart, holding >down cmd+opt before the desktop comes up, until it prompts you to rebuild >the desktop). Thanks Chris. That was the first thing I thought of, but Apple Events had no problem finding the apps. I have now trashed all the desktops and run DiskWarrior but it has made no difference. Apps on the startup partition are unfindable with thus routine. JD # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org