Apple script to copy folder contents

I am looking for help to create an apple script, or automator task that will copy the contents of a specified folder and paste them into another specified folder. There will just be a couple of files within this folder, and each time it creates the duplicate I dont want it to erase pervious copies already created within the destination folder, so it will probably need to change the name of the file (....1, ...2, ....3, something like that).

I tried setting up this automator app
You have to drop folder A onto the app ignored for it to do it's thing. Dropping folder A
on to it 3 times in a row gives this in folder B.
You can experiment with the app to get what you want. One should be able to create that script as a folder Action so that any file dropped into folder A will automatically get copied to folder B. I was unable to get that to work. Maybe someone with more experience with Automator can help in that area.

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You would think this would work, remember universal access - enable access must be on.
tell application "System Events"
tell application "Finder" to activate
tell process "Finder"
keystroke "a" using command down
keystroke left using command down & option down
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The Select All works, but the collapse all doesn't
CE Quickkey will do it with ease but that $80us a machine
http://www.cesoft.com/products/qkx.html
you could try the OS X scripting addition but it shareware and want money too and I don't know if it will work
http://osaxen.com/files/extrasuites1.1.html
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I am trying to copy one folder to another location.
When I take one folder and paste it to another folder.
I am able to get the folder name but when i open that folder it is blank.
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Hi Ted
Thanks for reply.
As you have mentioned to copy teh folder first,hope this line of my code does that thing
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I only see the getChildren().
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Thanks
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...and I'v gotten hung up a bit because my little copying app doesn't seem to count folders and sub folders (which I suppose makes sense).
My initial idea was to take just the date of modification and compare it to the last date that the app was run, inorder to only copy changed files. But this seems problematic on a few levels, so...
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There are two common solutions to this.
The first is to use the Finder's 'entire contents of...' command to get a list of everything in the folder, including sub-folders, the second is to make your script recursive - that is, it calls itself several times over.
In the first case it's as simple as:
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end tell
This can have problems, though, especially on very large directories since the Finder is not very efficient at building a list of hundreds or thousands of files.
The recursive path is a little trickier, but you write a handler to process a folder then repeatedly call that handler, like:
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set sourceFolder to (choose folder)
processAFolder(sourceFolder)
end run
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So here you walk through the folder, each time you find a new folder, you walk through that until you're done. The code takes care of keeping track of where you are in the folder hierarchy.
>2. I imagine that a better way to manage which files/folders need to be updated is to create a file with a list of the contents, and dates of modification, and compare the new folder list and the old folder list to each-other... ok.. so, um. yeah. that sounds tricky.
There's no need to keep a file. Assuming you have two folders you can just walk through one of them checking to see if each item exists in the other, then copy the newer file to the other directory, like:
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set destFileExists to (file fileName of folder destDir exists)
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Apple Script "Folder Contents to UPPER or lowercase"

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          if liste is {"Beta 1.8"} then set x to "b_1.8"
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--> {button returned:"OK"}
          choose from list {"Vollversion 1.2.5", "Vollversion 1.2.3", "Vollversion 1.1", "Vollversion 1.0.0", "Beta 1.9 Pre 6", "Beta 1.8.1", "Beta 1.8", "Beta 1.7.3", "Beta 1.6.6", "Beta 1.5_01", "Beta 1.4_01", "Beta 1.3_01", "Beta 1.2_02", "Beta 1.1_02", "Beta 1.0"}
                    --> {"Beta 1.8.1"}
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--> false
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close Finder window 1
                    --> {}
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                    --> error number -1728 from file "mincraft.jar" of folder "b_1.8.1" of folder "Versionen" of folder "Resources" of folder "Contents" of application file "VersioChanger.app" of folder "Desktop" of folder "manuelfederanko" of folder "Users" of startup disk
Ergebnis:
error "„Finder“ hat einen Fehler erhalten: „folder \"bin\" of folder \"minecraft\" of folder \"Versionen\" of folder \"Resources\" of folder \"Contents\" of application file \"VersioChanger.app\" of folder \"Desktop\" of folder \"manuelfederanko\" of folder \"Users\" of startup disk“ kann nicht als „file \"mincraft.jar\" of folder \"b_1.8.1\" of folder \"Versionen\" of folder \"Resources\" of folder \"Contents\" of application file \"VersioChanger.app\" of folder \"Desktop\" of folder \"manuelfederanko\" of folder \"Users\" of startup disk“ gesetzt werden." number -10006 from folder "bin" of folder "minecraft" of folder "Versionen" of folder "Resources" of folder "Contents" of application file "VersioChanger.app" of folder "Desktop" of folder "manuelfederanko" of folder "Users" of startup disk

path to resource is straightforward. the command:
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I have created a watch folder using apple script that when a file is dropped on it, it automatically opens, formats, and sends out a custom email.
What I don't understand is, how can I include multiple variables in the "content" section (also known as the body section of the email)? I want to put custom type in the content section that says "There is a file awaiting your review." I also would like to choose an email signature from my mail program to use. Third, I would like to include the name of the file that is being sent....
I found that by doing {content:iteminfo} I could get the file name...If I do {content:"There is a file awaiting your review."} I could get the custom type I wanted....
BUT, I can't figure out how to get BOTH of them together in ADDITION to adding a custom email signature...
I know there are some really smart people out there...Any tips?

I can't figure out how to get BOTH of them together
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... {content: "There is a file awaiting your review: " & iteminfo}
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