Can anyone tell me whats wrong with this AppleScript?

[lukedavidh]

tell application "Finder"

duplicate (every file of {"Volumes:MyPassportForMac:FamilyVac2014} whose name extension is in {".JPG"}) to folder "AllFamVacJPEGS" of desktop

end tell

 

[Jessica Lares]

You're missing a " in {"Volumes:MyPassportForMac:FamilyVac2014} You need one after the 4.

 

[lukedavidh]

Ahh, yes. newbie mistake. still doesn't work, says

SCRIPT ERROR
Can’t get {} whose {".JPG"} contains name extension.

 

[kryten2]

Try this :

tell application "Finder"
    duplicate (files of folder "Volumes:MyPassportForMac:FamilyVac2014:" whose name extension is "jpg") to folder "AllFamVacJPEGS" of desktop
end tell

 

[Jessica Lares]

Got it, this worked for me:

tell application "Finder"  

duplicate (every file of ("Volumes:MyPassportForMac:FamilyVac2014" as alias) whose name extension is "jpg") to folder "AllFamVacJPEGS" of desktop

end tell

You need to pass the volume path as an alias. You don't need the brackets on the jpg extension either because it's only that one and not tiff/gif/etc.