Thanks Chris, that’s mostly a winner, at least I can now get and set the property. Hopefully I can eventually get the Finder to respond to the changes. For now I’ll just abort the script and set the p

Thanks Bob, That works but doesn’t solve my problems. I’m looking at the desktop not just any random Finder window. I have a script that cleans my desktop by moving file/icons around, it won’t work if

Can't get or set list, column or icon view properties: tell application id "com.apple.finder" -- Finder get properties of Finder preferences (* comment out next line to see all properties *) get icon

Just to see if it works for me.