move a file in finder with applescript

Question

I just want to move an image from one folder to the other, replacing the one that's already in there:

tell application "Finder"
      copy file "/Users/xx/Documents/img.jpg" to folder "/Users/xx/Documents/State"
   end tell

When I run it, I get an error message saying

Finder got an error: Can’t set folder [path] to file [path]"."number -10006 from folder [path]

Please help me!

Answer 1

Try:

tell application "Finder"
    duplicate POSIX file "/Users/xx/Documents/img.jpg" to POSIX file "/Users/xx/Documents/State" with replacing
end tell

Or

tell application "Finder"
    move POSIX file "/Users/xx/Documents/img.jpg" to POSIX file "/Users/xx/Documents/State" with replacing
end tell