Applescript to automatically copy a video into one of two folders

Hi, on my hard drive I have 2 partitions, one for my OS 10.10.2 and one for my files. On my files drive I have 2 folders to which I want to copy video to: "Movies" and "Kids Movies". I have set a "Folder Action" on mounting of my USB drive to run this applescript I have below. It automatically copies video to my "Movies" folder and then after completing the copy, ask if I want to "Eject" the usb drive via a Yes or No dialog box.


My question is, what is the script to add another dialog box before copying that asks is this a "Kids Movie". With a "Yes" answer, the movie would copy to the "Kids Movie" folder, if the "No" button is pressed it would copy the video to the "Movies" folder. Any help with this script would be greatly appreciated.

My applescript so far:


property ignoredVolumes : {"10.10 30 of 1.5T", "Files 1.5T"} -- add as needed

property videoExtensions : {"avi", "mov", "mpg", "mp4", "wmv", "mkv"}


set moviemacVolume to alias (POSIX file "/Volumes/Files 1.5T/movies")


tell application "System Events"

set rootVolumes to disk item (POSIX file "/Volumes" as text)

set allVolumes to name of every disk item of rootVolumes

set numofallVolumes to count of allVolumes

repeat with thisVolume in allVolumes

tell application "Finder"

if (thisVolume is not in the ignoredVolumes and (thisVolume as text) is not ".DS_Store") then

try

if exists alias (POSIX file ("/Volumes/" & thisVolume) as text) then set trk to 1

on error

set trk to 0

end try

if trk = 1 then

duplicate (items whose name extension is in the videoExtensions) in alias (POSIX file ("/Volumes/" & thisVolume) as text) to moviemacVolume

tell application "Finder"

display dialog "Would you like to eject USB Drive" buttons {"yes", "no"} default button 1 with title "Eject?" giving up after 60

if button returned of result is "yes" then eject thisVolume

end tell

end if

end if

end tell

end repeat

end tell

Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Jul 16, 2016 2:19 PM

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Jul 16, 2016 2:24 PM in response to 1994firehawk

Replace the current duplicate command with:


display dialog "Is this a kid's movie?" buttons {"yes", "no"} default button 1

if button returned of the result is "yes" then

duplicate (items whose name extension is in the videoExtensions) in alias (POSIX file ("/Volumes/" & thisVolume) as text) to alias (POSIX file "/Volumes/Files 1.5T/movies/kid's movies/")

else

duplicate (items whose name extension is in the videoExtensions) in alias (POSIX file ("/Volumes/" & thisVolume) as text) to moviemacVolume

end if


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