As a script newbie, I know the finder is scriptable but am totally confounded how to copy a file from one hard drive to another. I have a disk with 10,000 jpg files on it and want to copy about 1,000 of them to a folder on another hard disk from a text list but, for the life of me, cannot get Applescript to do this. This is possible, correct? Sorry to ask such a basic question here but any assistance is appreciated.
This is definately possible. As an Applescript newbie myself, I would probably backup the images with a shell script:
do shell script "cp /Users/yourusername/path/to/folder/*jpg /Volumes/yourbackupdrive/path/to/folder"
Note that this will backup all jpgs in the folder… I’m not sure how to backup items from a list (but I know it can be done).