Newbie: Copy from volume to ~/documents

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#1

Hi all,

I’ve got what should be a simple problem but I’ve been unable to work it out.

I’m trying to create a script that will copy a file from my memory stick to the logged in user’s ~/library/preferences and ~/documents/

What I had in mind was launching the script, it copies the files across - no fiddling around.

I’ve had a look around here and have got a few pointers.

What I’ve got now is


tell application "System Events" to get name of current user
set the_user to result
tell application "Finder"
	set the_folders to "Library:Preferences"
end tell
tell application "Finder"
	duplicate file "Volumes:eMail:reg:01.rtf" to folder the_user & the_folders
end tell

Thank you in advance for any help.

Libwolf

#2

No need to get current user as that is known at run time, so something like this will work for you

tell application "Finder"
	duplicate "Volumes:eMail:reg:01.rtf" to (path to documents folder)
	duplicate "other:file" to (path to preferences folder)
end tell

And the shell version would be

do shell script "cp /Volumes/eMail/reg/01.rtf ~/Documents; cp /other/file ~/Library/Preferences/"
#3

Hi Libwolf,

Somebody should be along writing a script for you, but if you want to see how a reference looks like, try running one of these in the script editor and look at the result:

choose file

or:

choose folder

gl,

#4

Excellent! Just what I needed, thank you!

The shell scripting helped me complete the rest of it as well -

Thank you again!

Libwolf.