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    <p>Try:</p> <pre><code>tell application "Finder" to set desktopFolder to (path to desktop folder as text) &amp; "Temp Export From DO" as alias tell application "System Events" to 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 log "Source file: " &amp; DOEntry log "Destination folder: " &amp; desktopFolder tell application "Finder" to duplicate file DOEntry to desktopFolder with replacing end repeat </code></pre> <p>If you don't need to log the values you can simply:</p> <pre><code>tell application "Finder" to set desktopFolder to (path to desktop folder as text) &amp; "Temp Export From DO" as alias tell application "System Events" to set theDOEntries to every file of folder "/Users/jkratz/Dropbox/Apps/Day One/Journal.dayone/entries" whose name extension is "doentry" tell application "Finder" to duplicate theDOEntries to desktopFolder with replacing </code></pre> <p>Or:</p> <pre><code>set desktopFolder to quoted form of (POSIX path of (path to desktop folder as text) &amp; "Temp Export From DO") do shell script "find '/Users/jkratz/Dropbox/Apps/Day One/Journal.dayone/entries' -name \"*.doentry\" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} cp -a {} " &amp; desktopFolder </code></pre> <p>Getting back to your question, the duplicate commands creates duplicates of Finder items. You can use System Events to duplicate Finder items like this:</p> <pre><code>tell application "Finder" set myFile to file ((path to desktop as text) &amp; "Test File.txt") set myFolder to folder ((path to desktop as text) &amp; "Test Folder") end tell tell application "System Events" duplicate myFile to myFolder end tell </code></pre>
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    1. COThanks for the response but your code seems almost identical to mine though a bit shorter. I guess my main question wasn't how to get something to work...as I noted my code works. My question was whether or not System Events actually allows duplication of files and based on the book quote that I posted and my experiments it does not even though the "method" exists.
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    2. COSee my edit....
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    3. COSweet. Thanks. Looks like what I was missing was the "file" and "folder" objects when creating the paths. Shows just how little I understand about applescript. There are seemingly endless ways to do things that require a lot of trial and error.
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