Filter by Variable - Embedded Applescript in Automator

Question

I'm trying to make a workflow which when run will: Search my Downloads folder for .ash and .txt files, then search for files with the same name (and extension) in another folder (and its subfolders) called "New Location", and then move the new files from Downloads to the same place in "New Location" as the old files, replacing them.
*Currently my workflow looks like:*
•Get Value of Variable: Downloads folder
•Get Folder Contents
•Filter Finder Items +(for items with extension .txt or .ash)+
•Run Applescript 1 +(outputs first .txt or .ash file in Downloads folder)+
•Set Value of Variable: "File Name" +(Name of the new file. Could be the file itself if I need it to be)+
•Run Applescript 2 +(outputs file in "New Location" with same name as newly downloaded File)+
•Set Value of Variable: "The File" +(The file to be replaced)+
•Run Applescript 3 +(returns folder containing file in "New Location", may be "New Location" or one of its subfolders)+
•Set Value of Variable: "Container Folder"
•Get Value of Variable: "The File"
•Move Finder Items: To "Container Folder"
*Applescript 1*
on run {input, parameters}
set theFile to item 1 of (input)
theFile
end run
*Applescript 2*
on run {input, parameters}
set theFile to item 1 of (input)
tell application "Finder" to set filename to (name of theFile) as text
filename
end run
*Applescript 3*
Having trouble with this one. It needs to get the contents of "New Location", including the contents of its subfolders, but not the folders themselves, then filter those items to find the one (and there will only be one) with the same name as the downloaded file, and finally pass that on to the next action as a file (as opposed to text).
I originally tried using Get Specified Finder Items and then Filter Finder Items, but I can't filter by a variable. Which is what led me to try an embedded Applescript. Unfortunately I have no scripting experience, beyond what I picked up on the fly. The scripts above are bits and pieces I snipped and edited from other scripts I found on the web.
Thanks for your help!
Message was edited by: Boxes are Cool

Answer 1

Only one problem, I duplicated an ash file to downloads (and modified part of it to differentiate the copies) to test it, but the script doesn't seem to be setting it as "theNewFiles", with the variable returning {}. Any ideas? Or am I doing something wrong?
I really don't know. The script seems to work flawlessly in all my tests. Did you choose the right folder, the one called “New Location”, when asked by the script to choose a folder? Did the script work with some other files?
I'd also like to be able to run the script without intervention (possibly even as a folder action script)
Then the “choose folder” statement should be replaced with something like “set newLocation to POSIX file "/Users/curtisblack/Documents/New Location"” for example. The new Folder Action script (which should be attached to the Downloads folder) might then look like follows:
--BEGINNING OF SCRIPT
on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving theseItems
set newLocation to POSIX file "/Users/curtisblack/Documents/New Location" -- or some other location
tell application "Finder"
set theNewFiles to files of thisFolder whose name extension is in {"txt", "ash"}
repeat with thisFile in theNewFiles
set thisName to name of thisFile
set theOldFiles to (files of the entire contents of folder newLocation whose name is thisName)
if theOldFiles is not {} then
move thisFile to container of item 1 of theOldFiles with replacing
end if
end repeat
end tell
end adding folder items to
--END OF SCRIPT
Message was edited by: Pierre L.