Script has slowed massively due to Snow Leopard

Question

I am using AppleScript to retrieve jobs from our job server (afp mount). What used to take a couple seconds in Leopard now takes minutes (or times out completely)
Here is the portion of the code that has slowed to a crawl. (theYearFolder and theJobNumber is defined earlier in the script)
tell application "Finder"
with timeout of 777 seconds
try
*duplicate (every folder in theYearFolder whose name begins with thejobnumber) to the desktop*
on error the error_message
display dialog the error_message buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1 with icon caution
end try
end timeout
end tell
I am aware that there are some new changes in SL that cause certain operations to be duplicated if they are called inside a Finder tell block. As far as I can tell, that is not what is happening. Is there a known speed issue with the new Cocoa Finder + AppleScript? Or is there something I can change in my script that would speed up this operation?
PS …theYearFolder contains several hundred items.
Ideas?

Answer 1

Here's a basic script that should give you a start:
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title="Copy this text and paste it into your Script Editor application.">set theYearFolder to choose folder
set theJobNumber to 2
do shell script "find " & ¬
quoted form of text 1 through -2 of POSIX path of theYearFolder & ¬
" -type d -name '" & theJobNumber & "*' -exec cp -R '{}' ~/Desktop \\;"</pre>
Of course you won't need the first couple lines of code, I just used those to write the script. Hope this helps...