Error using Applescript to move subfolders

I am trying to move subfolders of a user selected folder to another folder, via Applescript, but this fails with "*Finder got an error: Can't make {alias "Macintosh HD:Users:Me:Data:Folder1:","Example Subfolder"} into type point.* "
Obviously "Example Subfolder" is just a subfolder in the directory I select. I assume I'm doing something wrong in the set source_folder line? The code is as as follows:
set folderSelected to choose folder "Select a folder"
tell application "Finder"
set listOfFolders to every folder of folderSelected
end tell
repeat with aFolder in listOfFolders
set tempname to the name of aFolder
tell application "Finder"
display dialog "Folder named " & tempname
set source_folder to folderSelected & tempname
set destination_folder to folder "Macintosh HD:Users:Me:Data:Folder1"
display dialog "Destination folder is " & destination_folder
move folder source_folder to destination_folder
end tell
end repeat

My script has moved on a bit, and I'm using it for an alternative purpose now, but I've hit a different issue. The script below creates the folder named 1, but then the dialog box states the Destination folder is "M" - not sure why?
set folderSelected to choose folder "Select a folder"
tell application "Finder"
set folder_num to 1
set maxFolderSize to 680
set listOfFolders to every folder of folderSelected
make new folder at "Macintosh HD:Users:Darrell:Music" with properties {name:folder_num}
repeat with aFolder in listOfFolders
display dialog "Found a folder named " & (name of aFolder)
set destination_folder to folder folder_num of "Macintosh HD:Users:Darrell:Music"
display dialog "Destination folder is " & destination_folder
set Posix_DestinationPath to quoted form of POSIX path of (destination_folder as text)
set the_destinationscript to "du -ks " & Posix_DestinationPath & "| awk '{print $1}'"
set the_destinationsize to do shell script the_destinationscript
--used for debugging, so outcommented
(* display dialog "The destination folder is " & the_destinationsize / 1024 & " MB in size" *)
set Posix_SourcePath to quoted form of POSIX path of (aFolder as text)
set the_sourcescript to "du -ks " & Posix_SourcePath & "| awk '{print $1}'"
set the_sourcesize to do shell script the_sourcescript
--used for debugging, so outcommented
(* display dialog "The source folder is " & the_sourcesize / 1024 & " MB in size" *)
if (the_sourcesize + the_destinationsize) / 1024 > maxFolderSize then
display dialog "Total size is " & (the_sourcesize + the_destinationsize) / 1024
display dialog "Destination folder full"
set folder_num to folder_num + 1
make new folder at "Macintosh HD:Users:Darrell:Music" with properties {name:folder_num}
set destination_folder to folder folder_num of "Macintosh HD:Users:Darrell:Music"
move aFolder to destination_folder
else
move aFolder to destination_folder
end if
end repeat
end tell

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    I've tried various js scripts which do an OK job, but they don't make the actual native markers. This means you have to wait until the book (consistiing of multiple ID files) is complete (so that all the page numbers have been established) to generate the index.
    Recently, I read a tweet from someone with a link to a technique which uses tagged text and find and replace with GREP to edit the tags, inserting the tagged text index tags in the text file and then re-placing the text file in the ID page. In itself, this works great. But I'm dealing with literally thousands of separate text frames, none of them connected in a story.
    The books typically consist of around 1200 pages with almost that many people, each of whose names I need to index with "Lastname, Firstname" references. And those particular strings don't (can't) appear anywhere on the pages. There will also be about 50 ID files all combined into one book. So it is imperative that I have ID generate the native index markers. To help keep things straight and efficient, I'm creating separate small text frames to hold the lastname, firstname strings. I created an object style for these frames which sets the attributes to "nonprinting", and I place the frames in the margin.
    Then I realized that I don't actually have to have ID export the tagged text files for each. I exported one prototype and copied its tags to properties in my script, and then I concatenate them with the respective list item values I import from the database.
    At the proper point in the page building script, I tell "textwrangleer" to make a new document, set its contents to the index string for the current record, save it to disk, overwriting the previous one, and then tell ID to "place" it in the index text frame, which generates the ID index mark.
    I actually got an AS error when I first tried this: "file doesn't exist" or some such. Then I realized that the "place" command was happening too soon, so I inserted a .5 sec delay in the script, and it worked.
    This is actually my first major script for actual work, and I'm so excited about it! I promises to cut production time down to about a thenth of what it was.
    I still have to add some logic to branch between handlers with slightly different parameters for five different page formats, but the same page building handler will work on all of them.

    A note on this:
    Daniel Swanson wrote:
    I've tried various js scripts which do an OK job, but they don't make the actual native markers. This means you have to wait until the book (consistiing of multiple ID files) is complete (so that all the page numbers have been established) to generate the index.
    These scripts typically search for words and immediately write out the page numbers they are found on -- one shot indexing.
    The solution is to add both the topic and its page reference to the current document's index:
    if (app.activeDocument.indexes.length == 0)
        app.activeDocument.indexes.add();
    app.activeDocument.indexes[0].topics.add(app.selection[0].contents).pageReferences.add(app.selection[0]);
    The first lines only make sure there is an index to add to (per default, a new document has none).
    The last line adds a selected word to the index (it must be a plain text string, hence the use of its 'contents'), and then adds a reference to the selection in the text itself.
    Adding the same word a second time will for a change (quite untypically for ID's Scripting) not result in an error but simply add another page reference to the existing one.
    When doing this in a loop: remember to work backwards, because the index marker itself gets inserted into the running text, and that will throw off your text indices.

  • Using AppleScript to launch an application on a different machine

    Hi there,
    I'm trying to use AppleScript to enable a couple of my Macs to talk to each other.
    On one machine, I want to use this script:
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    launch application "Rivet" of machine "eppc://user:[email protected]"
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    everything seems to work without issue (i.e. no errors), except it doesn't do anything.
    I see a line written to the console on "helium":
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    every time I run the script on the other machine, but, like I said, nothing else happens.

    After much searching and trial and error I finally discoverd Hiroto's suggestion from way back in 2001. It is the only solution I have found that actually works to launch/activate any application on a remote Mac using an applescript on a local Mac.
    I have one Mac Mini running household control applications Indigo and iRed. I wanted to use embedded AppleScripts in those applications to launch and control PandoraBoy on another MacMini that I use as a media center. I discovered that you cannot activate an application on a remote Mac unless it's already running. (Only God and Apple know why!) And, of course, if you want to launch and application--it's usually NOT running!
    But the following works:
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    tell application "Finder" of machine remoteMachine
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    end tell
    THANK YOU HIROTO!!!
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    playpause
    end tell
    end using terms from
    I have also learned that the application to be controlled on the remote machine must also be present on the local machine and "using terms from" must also be used in the control script for this to work.

  • How do I use AppleScript to Change the Creation Date to the Current Date?

    I sorted my downloads folder by creation date and found that the items were sorted seemingly randomly. On closer inspection, I saw that the creation dates were not the same as the dates that I downloaded the items, so I figures that Snow Leopard was using the date given to it by the server.
    In order to get the items sorted by download date, I figured I'd use Hazel, but it doesn't have a “change creation date” item. It does, however, have an “run AppleScript” item.
    So my question is this: how do I use AppleScript to change the creation date of an item to the current date?

    TC (Techno Cat) wrote:
    Okay, I tried changing the creation date with SetFile, but it kept giving me an error:
    What am I doing wrong?
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    font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
    font-size: 10px;
    font-weight: normal;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 5px;
    border: 1px solid #000000;
    width: 720px;
    color: #000000;
    background-color: #E6E6EE;
    overflow: auto;"
    title="this text can be pasted into the AppleScript Editor">
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    tell application "Finder"
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    repeat with currentFile in filelist
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    end repeat
    end tell</pre>

  • Problem using "Photo to Movie" and "Toast 8 Titanium" for dvd slideshow

    I used photo to movie to compile a 20 minute collection of photos for a relative's funeral. All the files were still photos (no video) but I added 4 songs (that I had in iTunes).
    When I go to "create movie", I normally select NTSC for toast, but when I do so toast gives me an error saying "filename.dv is an unsupported format and cannot be imported".
    I just went throw this process a day ago for a wedding slideshow (using same computer and workflow) and it worked fine!!! What could be causing this?
    I have downloaded all the latest updates of both toast and photo to movie.

    I finally figured out (after 8 hrs of troubleshooting) that there was one photo in there it didnt like. When I finally found the photo (by process of elimination) and replaced it, everything worked fine. Just wish the error messaging would be more specific to help me locate the problem!

  • Automating Final Cut Express using AppleScript?

    Hello,
    just another question: is it possible to use AppleScript (or something similar) with Final Cut Express?
    And if so, where to find a good reference?
    I have some DV movies and a for each a csv containing the In and Out Points for the subclips, including their names and comments about the contained action, date, place, light and so on.
    At moment I'm doing everything manually, but that's time killing, so I'm looking for how to automate this.
    Thank you.

    Comma Separated Values (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180).
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