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On Dec 7, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Gary (Lists) wrote:

What happens if you close, then open the folder window after running
the script?

The temporary items folder is an invisible folder.

But it can still be seen/opened/closed...

tell application "Finder" to open ¬
(path to temporary items folder from user domain)

and

tell application "Finder" to open (path to "temp")

...both will open the folder in the finder, if you want to inspect to see if
that will solve the problem.

Thanks. It gave me the information I needed to solve the problem. I needed a short delay after renaming the file.

So to solve the original problem of duplicating and renaming a file to a new destination, without having a file with the old name in the destination folder or a file with the new name in the source folder, here is the script:

set source to (choose file)

set destination to choose folder

tell application "Finder"

set temp to (duplicate source to (path to temporary items from user domain) with replacing) as alias

delay 1

set name of temp to "new name." & name extension of temp

move temp to destination

end tell

Yes, this does have the risk of wiping out a file with the same name as the source file in the temporary folder; it also runs the risk of encountering a file with the new name in the temporary items folder, causing the script to error. Both risks are so miniscule as to not having any concerns about.

-- Michelle

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References:
	>Re: Changing the name of a file in the temporary items folder (From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>)