Move files script

Question

Hello all,
I am having some trouble making a scrip that watches a folder and moves the files from it to another folder once that are finished exporting from Final Cut Server. So far I have:
tell application "Finder"
set newFiles to every file of "/Volumes/exports/Exports/Sorenson In" whose modification date is greater than (get (current date) - (1 * minutes)) and name extension = "mov"
end tell
tell application "Finder"
move newFiles to "/Volumes/exports/Flash Encoding/"
end tell
I will also need to make it loop indefinitely, but my most immediate concern is it returns an error: "Can't get every file of "/Volumes/exports/Exports/Sorenson In"."
Does anyone have any insight into what I am doing wrong?
Thanks,
Paul

Answer 1

I think your logic is wrong.
... whose modification date is greater than (get (current date) - (1 * minutes))
If right now is, say 9:00:00 then you're asking for files whose modification date is greater than 8:59:00 - in other words, files that have been modified in the last minute.
From the sounds of it, you want your script to pause while the files are exported, in which case you want files whose modification date is less than ((get current date) - (1 * minutes)).
The other way of doing this is via a folder action in which case your script is executed whenever a file is moved (or created) in that folder. The advantage here is that you get the actual files that were dropped, so you don't need any special logic to work out which files you need to action.