Please help - Copying items to another folder?

I thought I was pretty good with Automator, but I've never done a folder action before, and I can't seem to get this one to work.
I want to have any songs in my "Automatically add to iTunes" folder automatically copy themselves to my mom's "Automatically add to iTunes" folder.
I tried a Folder Action with "Get Folder Contents >>> Copy Finder Items"
and I also tried "Get Selected Finder Items >>> Copy Finder Items."
My mom and I both have read/write access to each other's Music folders, so that shouldn't be an issue.
Is this the wrong approach? What am I missing?

You aren't specific about what the problem is other than "I can't seem to get this one to work", so I am going to guess that the items copied are not what you expect.
A folder action is triggered when items (files or folders) are added to the target folder. The added items are automatically passed to the workflow, so you don't need to do anything more to get them. The *Get Folder Contents* action won't get the contents of the targeted folder, but rather the contents of any passed (added) folders.

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