Copy Illustrator contents to Indesign (Scripting) - Urgent

Hi,
I need to copy the contents of illustrator to indesign using scripting. Can any of you please help me to copy the contents from illustrator to indesign.
Thnaks for help in advance

... Erm. What was the difference, then?
BridgeTalk is a way to comunicate between Adobe applications -- for example, you can use it to trigger an InDesign script from Bridge to process selected indd-files (thumbnails) in Bridge. And vice versa, you can run a Bridge script from InDesign -- e.g. to get some metadata that you can't get directly from InDesign.
Kasyan

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    and another that will speed up copying the content of a usb?

    One thing that might work is Mountwatcher...
    http://www.scriptsoftware.com/mountwatcher/
    And a Script to copy if needed.
    My favorite, Tri-Backup...
    http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html
    can do this using the Trigger this action when Volumes Mount.

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