Copying from Synology Drive app to local drive fails

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

For those who don’t know, Synology Drive client is an app that allows you to mount remote NAS shares as server drives in Finder.

For the 1st time, I tried writing a script to copy files from the NAS server share, but it fails. Previously, I’ve been able to run scripts that rename files on the NAS without error.

Here’s the code:

set sourceFile to "/Users/acme/Library/CloudStorage/SynologyDrive-AcmeParts/widget1.jpg"
set destFolder to "/Users/acme/Documents"

tell application "Finder"
	copy file source to folder destFolder
end tell

The error is:

“widget1.jpg” couldn’t be copied to “Documents”.

Anyone know if it’s possible to directly copy to/from Synology Drive shares via Applescript?

#2

About ‘copy’, Finder’s dictionary says “NOT AVAILABLE YET”.

You want ‘duplicate’. Caution: when duplicating between volumes the command does not return a usable reference to the duplicated item.

#3

Also, your variable source isn’t defined and the Finder doesn’t understand POSIX paths.

set sourceFile to "/Users/acme/Library/CloudStorage/SynologyDrive-AcmeParts/widget1.jpg"
set destFolder to "/Users/acme/Documents"

tell application "Finder"
	duplicate file (sourceFile as POSIX file) to folder (destFolder as POSIX file)
end tell
#4

Actually, copy works (after casting to POSIX file). But, looking at the log messages, it just redoes the command using duplicate. :man_shrugging:

#5

Thanks. Guess I’ve never actually copied a file. Mostly I create Word docs, folders, and move files using file refs.

#6

Turns out the original problem I had wasn’t a problem–seems copying the Synology Drive file failed because the NAS was down temporarily. :confounded: