Ok I'm very close and I"I'm very lazy so I try and script things to get things done. I'm trying to open a file in my documents folder but theres a sub folder. Here is the error I get. Can’t get "~" whose name = "tcjwb.band". Here is the script. tell application "Finder" open (the first file in "~/Documents/gb files" whose name is "tcjwb.band") end tell delay 5 tell application "LineIn" activate end tell the second half of the script works after the delay but I can't get the finder to open that cursed file lol! I know the fix is simple but I'm tired and can't think straight. lol! I know I'm close. I can feel it. thanks. Sarah Alawami If you need an edit done on a small project go to http://music.marrie.org/master.html for more info. If you need to contact me my info is below. MSN and AIM: marrie12@xxxxxxxxx website: http://music.marrie.org Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125