Trim first 6 characters from Folder Names [AppleScript]

Hi all,
I've found an AppleScript online which trims the first characters from a FILENAME, however, it does not seem to work on FOLDERS.
How could this be modified to rename folder names?
set whichFile to choose file with multiple selections allowed repeat with aFile in whichFile tell application "Finder" set filename to name of aFile set name of aFile to ((characters 7 thru -1 of filename) as string) end tell end repeat
Thank You!

Here:
set whichFile to choose folder with multiple selections allowed
repeat with aFile in whichFile
tell application "Finder"
set filename to name of aFile
set name of aFile to ((characters 7 thru -1 of filename) as string)
end tell
end repeat
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