Problem with File.copy() -- should this work?

Question

I'm trying to copy a number of script files (I'm testing with just one) out of one folder into another. Here's the code:
(function() {
  var myFolder = Folder(getScriptPath().parent + "/disabled");
  if (myFolder.exists) {
    var myScripts = myFolder.getFiles("*.jsx");
      for (var j = 0; myScripts.length > j; j++) {
      if (myScripts[j].copy("../enabled")) {
        myScripts[j].remove();
  function getScriptPath() {
    // This function returns the path to the active script, even when running ESTK
    try {
      return app.activeScript;
    } catch(e) {
      return File(e.fileName);
  } // end getScriptPath
What's happening is that the file in the disabled folder is simply being deleted. This means that the copy method is returning true and yet the copy didn't happen. Perhaps my URI is wrong, but if so, the copy should have failed. The file is not in either the InDesign or ESTK packages, which seem to be the only two worth looking in -- I was running from ESTK with InDesign CS4 targeted.
Dave

Answer 1

You can set the current folder like this:
Folder.current = "/d/test1/test2"
Then change to that current folder's parent using
Folder.current = ".."
But you can't use .. in file masks. This won't work:
var myFiles = Folder.cuttent.getFiles ("../*.jsx")
The only way of using .. (as far as I can see) is with literal filenames:
myFile = '../nonsense.txt'
which points to nonsense.txt in current folder's parent folder. But this is unclear as you dont't have a reference to the current folder in your statement. I agree that using relative file paths is vague and it looks as if they're best avoided.
Why copy() returns true when in fact it hasn't worked looks like a bug. I've tried it a couple of times and on Windows it gives the same results as with you: copy() says true when nothing's happened.
Peter