Copy or Duplicate item to a different folder?

[Corbin]

I cant find anywhere a term to copy a file from one folder to another.
Is this possible in applescript? I would like to be able to have it grab a file from one directory and copy it to a sperate directory…

[John_M]

Hi Corbin,

It is in the Finder’s Dictionary > Standard Suite > Duplicate:

duplicate‚v : Duplicate one or more object(s)
duplicate reference : the object(s) to duplicate
[to location reference] : the new location for the object(s)
[replacing boolean] : Specifies whether or not to replace items in the destination that have the same name as items being duplicated
[routing suppressed boolean] : Specifies whether or not to autoroute items (default is false). Only applies when copying to the system folder.
→ reference : to the duplicated object(s)

An example:

set myFile to choose file with prompt "Choose file"
set myFolder to choose folder with prompt "Choose destination"
tell application "Finder"
	duplicate myFile to myFolder with replacing
end tell

Best wishes

John M