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Re: Sometime error -10006 copying a folder


  • Subject: Re: Sometime error -10006 copying a folder
  • From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:02:02 -0800

On 08-03-05, at 12:11, Thomas Summerall wrote:

That's what I get for typing in the code snippet instead of copy/ paste. The actual code does put "finder" in quotes.

I'm not sure what you mean by aliases.

Mark Reed has supplied the intent of 'aliases'.

I've been working on a case sensitive system as of this morning and been caught by a few case errors that I never would have noticed before. So I think your code should read "Finder".


I have written our Photoshop plug-in's installer in AppleScript. Generally it works great. The installation is very simple, I simply tell the finder to duplicate our product folder from inside the installer apps package to Photoshop's plug-ins folder, which has been chosen by the user using folder select.

Some users (a small percentage) have been reporting a -10006 error in this form:

-- Finder got an error: Can’t set folder "OSX:Applications:Adobe Photoshop CS3:Plug-Ins" to folder "Installer Disk:Installer.app:Contents:Product Folder". (-10006)

The code in applescript is pretty straightforward:

tell application finder
duplicate (folder (myPath as string)) to (folder (destPath as string))
end tell


I can't duplicate the error on any machine here. At first I thought it might be a permissions issue, but when I try to create that situation I get a different, permissions-specific error.

The source folder is on a non-writable compressed disk image.

Any ideas?

You're not addressing the Finder correctly. It should be:

tell application "Finder"

I suggest to use a 'try' block in the script and use aliases for both the source and destination file system objects.

You might want to try using 'ditto' in a 'do shell script' call as a means of getting a different error readout.


Philip Aker
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