That's interesting, and would be doable for small scripts that I could fully understand. But I would be hesitant to use it for larger jobs, where it might end u

That's interesting, and would be doable for small scripts that I could fully understand. But I would be hesitant to use it for larger jobs, where it might end up misunderstanding me, and I wouldn't necessarily realize there was a mistake. Applescript is very powerful, and I wouldn't want to risk it deleting/moving/editing files. Perhaps in the future, when people have used it for this purpose for years (without incident), I would trust it more.