Got on for you all!

[Cliff Nowack]

One way would be to wrap the delete in a try, then it wouldn't error.

set the_folder_path to alias "PDFProofs:"
set days_old to 8

set this_date to current date
set weeks_old_in_seconds to days_old * days
set too_old_date to this_date - weeks_old_in_seconds

tell application "Finder"
	activate
	tell (every file of folder the_folder_path whose creation date comes  
before too_old_date)
		try
			delete
		end try
	end tell
end tell

or you could also do this, which will only attempt to delete if it  
finds old files.

set the_folder_path to alias "PDFProofs:"
set days_old to 8

set this_date to current date
set weeks_old_in_seconds to days_old * days
set too_old_date to this_date - weeks_old_in_seconds

tell application "Finder"
	activate
	set fileList to (every file of folder the_folder_path whose creation  
date comes before too_old_date)
	repeat with i from 1 to count of fileList
		set thisFile to item i of fileList
		delete thisFile
	end repeat
end tell

Don't know about the postscript problem.

Cliff

On Feb 12, 2008, at 7:11 AM, Zach Manring wrote:

> set the_folder_path to alias "PDFProofs:"
> set days_old to 8
>
> set this_date to current date
> set weeks_old_in_seconds to days_old * days
> set too_old_date to this_date - weeks_old_in_seconds
>
> tell application "Finder"
>    activate
>    tell (every file of folder the_folder_path whose creation date  
> comes
> before too_old_date)
>        delete
>    end tell
> end tell