Copy File Problems

Question

First off, my problem is this. I know the only way to copy over a folder
is to create a new folder where you want to copy the original folder to and copy each file over seper
ately, then remove the old file....for some reason my copy seems to be failing. Here is the code.
function moveItems(fName,pNum) {
    temp1 = new File('/p/toConvert/regular/'+fName+'/ImageProperties.xml');
    fileObject = new Folder("/p/toConvert/Done/"+pNum+"/"+fName);
if(fileObject.exists){   
    check = temp1.copy ("/p/toConvert/Done/"+pNum+"/"+fName);
    alert(check);
    return;
    }else{
        alert('not there');
    if(check){
    temp1.remove();
    return;
temp1.remove(); works and removes the old file, however my alert says that check failed, even though remove worked so we know temp1 exists, and since fileObject.exists was passed to get the alert....I have no clue what the deal is, it just wont copy. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

Mike, I have been playing with copying directories with contents on my mac. I would normally with AppleScript & Shell. What I have is working but I do think Im going about this in an untidy way with my JavaScript? Im using bridge to issue the system commands. Just about the only thing I've gotten to work with bridgetalk…
using fsName on a folder omits the final backslash should I be using a decodeURI
also is there a cleaner method to wrapping file path strings so that they are enclosed in single quotes?
Here was my test code
var defaultFolder = new Folder ('~/Desktop');
// Get user selected source folder
var sourceFolder = defaultFolder.selectDlg('Please select your Folder to sync files from…');
var sf = sourceFolder.fsName;
// Get user selected destination folder
var destFolder = defaultFolder.selectDlg('Please select your Folder to sync files to…');
var df = destFolder.fsName;
// Add quotes to paths
var shellString = 'rsync -auqE ' + "'" +sf + "/'" + ' ' + "'" + df + "/'";
btMessaging('bridge', shellString);
function btMessaging(targetApp, script) {
var bt = new BridgeTalk();
bt.target = targetApp;
bt.body = 'app.system(' + script.toSource() + ');';
//bt.onResult = function(inBT) {}
//bt.onError = function(inBT) {}
bt.send();