Copy a file from one location to another

[spyke03]

Hello everyone,
I have been working on this for almost 3 hours (I am a KM noob), and have been looking through the following topics:

Error: 'File action failed because destination already exists'

Don’t bang your head against the wall, but see if some of those examples give you what you need. If you’re still stuck then report back. Rule-of-the-thumb – if you don’t make decent progress on something after an hour of research then start asking questions. People on the forum are very helpful. -ccs

Working with the Finder Selection

In Keyboard Maestro, you work with the Finder Selection by using the For Each action to iterate over the selected files. From there, you can do whatever you would like with the files using the various file actions, or by processing with a script or other means. There is a smart action in the acton selector for For Each Path in the Finder Selection, which is simply a For Each action, preset to iterate through the Finder Selection collection. You can put whatever actions you like within that ac…

Copy a file from one location to another

I haven’t used Keyboard Maestro for a while. Basically I just want to copy a file from my iMac to a Mac Mini that has been triggered by a hot key. The file exists in the new location so will I have to delete that first and then copy it over?

But wasn't able to find the solution after trying, trying, trying !

What I want to achieve:

If a file is added in folder A (/Volumes/GoogleDrive/My Drive/FOLDER) , I want it to be copied into folder B (~/DestFOLDER).
Pretty simple.

I have set up different types of actions, but in the end, I always got this error message:

Action Failed
FIle action failed because the destination already exists.

I tried to put a slash to the destination folder, and remove it.. Same result

Here is the last thing i tried:

I tried also with the variable " File " instead of " Files "

This macro works only if the folder does not exist, but if it exists, it doesn't work...

Any help would be highly appreciated...

Thanks !

[gglick]

Hey @spyke03,

The way your macro is currently set up, it's trying to copy every file in the Google Drive folder whenever a new file is added to it, which explains why you're getting the "destination already exists" error. If you only want to copy the newly added file, you need to use the %TriggerValue% token, and you don't need the For Each action:

[spyke03]

Hi @gglick,
thank you very much for your quick reply.

After replicating your macro, i got this error:
File action failed because source is not a full path (null) in Macro ... while exectuing Copy File "%TriggerValue%".

Do I have to set up the trigger value first ?

[gglick]

No problem. I'm guessing you tested the macro by running it from the editor, rather than by actually adding a file? The %TriggerValue% token won't work with a folder trigger unless a file has actually been added to the folder in question, so try adding a test file to the folder and seeing if that doesn't do the trick.

[spyke03]

You're totally right !
Thank you so much, it is working now !