Is it me or is the Finder really flaky under Applescript? I don’t
understand this Applescript stuff some days...
This seems to work sometimes and sometimes it doesn’t:
tell application “Finder”
set backedupFile to duplicate existingFile to folder
backupFolder with replacing
end tell
Where existingFile and backupFolder are variables of class alias
that point to an afp mounted volume.
Sometimes this command works, sometimes I get an error that says
“Get failed: no such object (e.g. Specifier asked for the 3rd, but
there are only 2)(errAENoSuchObject-1728)”
Any suggestions?
The Finder dictionary says ...
duplicate v : Duplicate one or more object(s)
duplicate reference : the object(s) to duplicate
[to location reference] : the new location for the object(s)
It wants references, not aliases. 'folder backupFolder' is a
reference, but 'existingFile' is not.
Try this ...
set backedupFile to duplicate item existingFile to folder
backupFolder with replacing
