Trying to modify SaveDocsAsSVG to open and save all files within a directory automatically

Question

I am trying to do as the title suggests, but I can't find a way to specify the folder I want the script to look at and I can't get it to open/save/close the files without user interaction. Another way to say it is that I need this to be itterative as the PC I'm using cannot handle too many open files at once.
On a side note, I can't even find the documentation. Example, what arguments does Folder.selectDialog() accept? Where is the documentation for that?
Thank peeps!
Using CS6 trying to convert EPS to SVG

Answer 1

Here is what I have so far. I think I'm close I just need to figure out how to open the documents in the app and close them after converting them so only one document is open at a time. My goal is to run this program over night since there are thousands of files to convert. Thank you all for your help!
app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DONTDISPLAYALERTS;
try {
          if (app.documents.length > 0 ) {
                    // Get the folder to save the files into
        var inFolder = Folder( Folder.desktop + '/temp' )
        var files = inFolder.getFiles( /\.eps$/i );
                    var destFolder = null;
                    destFolder = '~/Desktop/temp';
                    if (destFolder != null) {
                              var options, i, sourceDoc, targetFile;
                        // Get the SVG options to be used.
                              options = this.getOptions();
                        // You can tune these by changing the code in the getOptions() function.
                              for ( i = 0; i < files.length; i++ ) {
                  //THIS IS WHAT I NEED HELP WITH
                  var docRef = open(files[i]);
                  sourceDoc = app.documents[i]; // returns the document object
                                        // Get the file to save the document as svg into
                                        targetFile = this.getTargetFile(sourceDoc.name, '.svg', destFolder);
                                        // Save as SVG
                                        sourceDoc.exportFile(targetFile, ExportType.SVG, options);
                                        // Note: the doc.exportFile function for SVG is actually a Save As
                                        // operation rather than an Export, that is, the document's name
                                        // in Illustrator will change to the result of this call.
                              alert( 'Documents saved as SVG' );
          else{
                    throw new Error('There are no document open!');
catch(e) {
          alert( e.message, "Script Alert", true);
/** Returns the options to be used for the generated files.
          @return ExportOptionsSVG object
function getOptions()
          // Create the required options object
          var options = new ExportOptionsSVG();
          // See ExportOptionsSVG in the JavaScript Reference for available options
          // Set the options you want below:
          // For example, uncomment to set the compatibility of the generated svg to SVG Tiny 1.1
          // options.DTD = SVGDTDVersion.SVGTINY1_1;
          // For example, uncomment to embed raster images
          // options.embedRasterImages = true;
          return options;
/** Returns the file to save or export the document into.
          @param docName the name of the document
          @param ext the extension the file extension to be applied
          @param destFolder the output folder
          @return File object
function getTargetFile(docName, ext, destFolder) {
          var newName = "";
          // if name has no dot (and hence no extension),
          // just append the extension
          if (docName.indexOf('.') < 0) {
                    newName = docName + ext;
          } else {
                    var dot = docName.lastIndexOf('.');
                    newName += docName.substring(0, dot);
                    newName += ext;
          // Create the file object to save to
          var myFile = new File( destFolder + '/' + newName );
          // Preflight access rights
          if (myFile.open("w")) {
                    myFile.close();
          else {
                    throw new Error('Access is denied');
          return myFile;