CS, CS2 & CS3 place problem

Question

Hi,
I was just wondering if someone could help me with the following problem:
All l'm doing is placing a text file into a text frame - sounds easy - test code below:
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set boxContent to "HDPropane:textfile.txt"
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
    activate
    set MyDocument to active document
    try
        set myframe to (text frame 1 of MyDocument whose label is "testbox")
        «event K2  plac» (boxContent) with «class rtfo» without «class imot» given «class insh»:myframe
    on error emg
        display dialog emg
    end try
end tell
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This works OK and will overwrite the contents each time... the problem is when you link the text frame to another text frame.... it still works fine if you run the script without having any contents in your text frames but as soon as you have some contents you get an error 'import failed'  I get the same problem in CS, CS2 & CS3
I've even tried after the 'set myframe' adding set myframe contents to "" - adding this line was a little hit and miss  sometimes it worked sometimes l got the same import failed message.
Regards, Gary.

Answer 1

Change this:
        set myframe to (text frame 1 of MyDocument whose label is "testbox")
        «event K2  plac» (boxContent) with «class rtfo» without «class imot» given «class insh»:myframe
to something like this:
        set myframe to (text frame 1 of MyDocument whose label is "testbox")
        set contents of parent story of myFrame to ""
        place file boxContent on myframe without showing options
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