[pacificlucy]

Hi all-

Any help with this will be much appreciated - I've been banging my head against this all day and I know it must be something very simple.

All I'm trying to do is duplicate a file from one location to another, using applescript. Everytime I run my script, I get an AppleScript Error:

"Finder got an error: Can't set folder "/Users/Brock/Documents/" to file "/Users/Brock/lucy.jpg"."

Below is a copy of my script. There are three different ways of copying I've tried, and each fails the exact same way. What could be going on? It's driving me nuts!

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set ExportFolder to "/Users/Brock/Documents/"
set PictureThing to "/Users/Brock/lucy.jpg"

tell application "Finder"
do shell script ("cp " & (quoted form of POSIX path of PictureThing) & " " & quoted form of POSIX path of ExportFolder)

duplicate file PictureThing to folder ExportFolder

duplicate file "/Users/brock/lucy.jpg" to folder ("/Users/brock/Documents/")

end tell

[itai195]

You need to use aliases, not POSIX style paths. This will work:

set PictureThing to alias ((path to home folder as text) & "lucy.jpg")

tell application "Finder"
duplicate PictureThing to path to documents folder
end tell

I'm surprised the do shell script command didn't work for you, it works on my system. However, saying 'POSIX path of' a reference that's already in POSIX style is unnecessary.