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    <p>I've been trying to get System Events to duplicate files in AppleScript and I've been failing :) I eventually always get the error "error "Files can not be copied." number -1717". So I changed my tactics and tried using the Finder to make sure what i was trying to do was correct. Here is the code that works:</p> <p>tell application "System Events"</p> <pre><code>set desktopFolder to (path to desktop folder) as string set fullPath to desktopFolder &amp; "Temp Export From DO" set theDOEntries to every file of folder "/Users/jkratz/Dropbox/Apps/Day One/Journal.dayone/entries" whose name extension is "doentry" repeat with DOEntry in theDOEntries set source to path of DOEntry log "Source file: " &amp; source set destination to fullPath as string log "Destination folder: " &amp; destination tell application "Finder" duplicate file source to folder destination with replacing end tell end repeat </code></pre> <p>end tell</p> <p>If I remove that last tell, so that it uses System Events, I get the same error noted above. The dictionary for System Events standard suite has a "duplicate" command so I'm not sure what is going on here. Also, "Learning AppleScript, 3rd ed" from APress notes: </p> <p>"One particularly annoying omission in System Events is that it can’t yet duplicate files and folders; if you need to do this, the Finder is your best bet."</p> <p>The 3rd edition is from 2010. It would seem that even in Mountain Lion this is still true. Can anyone confirm this? The 1717 error number lists everywhere else as a handler error and i'm not using handlers.</p>
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