A secure element (30) has a local store of file property data (50). A method of preparing a script to send to the secure element (30) to remotely provision a profile (31) at the secure element includes preparing the script such that the script lacks a command to create a file if the local store of file property data (50) at the secure element includes file property data which can be used to locally create that file. A script may include an entry of reduced length which refers to the file to be locally created, such as a SELECT FILE command and an identifier of the file.