I am adding several PDF documents to a note using the scan documents feature in Notes on my iPhone. I want to pull those attachments to a folder on my mac. I have the notes on iCloud so the note attachments are available. I can drag and drop, of course, but I want to automate the process. I tried to record my activity through automater and Scropt Editor, but they didn’t pick up the drag and drops. I have moved to writing my own apple script.

I tried a number of approaches to the duplicate. I am able to get the path to the destination folder and can reference the items in the folder. The usage of the duplicate verb in Notes eludes me.

tell application "Finder"
    set FWsimple to front window 
    set FW to (POSIX path of (target of front window as alias))
end tell
tell application "Notes"
    set theAttachment to attachment id "x-coredata://EDDBBF66-DC2A-4A84-8913-  4548B5AA5D6C/ICAttachment/p2176"
    set allAttachments to get every attachment of note "Patients 5/17/22"
    duplicate the attachment to FW
end tell
{FWsimple, FW, theAttachment, allAttachments}

Running the above with the duplicate statement commented out gives me the following, so I know I am getting the objects. The front window target will be changed later, but it works for now to get the correct folder.

{Finder window id 2573 of application "Finder",
"/Users/sholland/Desktop/Applescript of Notes/", 
attachment id "x-coredata://EDDBBF66-DC2A-4A84-8913-4548B5AA5D6C/ICAttachment/p2176" of application "Notes", 
{attachment id "x-coredata:...p2034" of application "Notes"}
}

When I run I get: error “Notes got an error: Can’t make “/Users/sholland/Desktop/Applescript of Notes/” into type location specifier.” number -1700 from “/Users/sholland/Desktop/Applescript of Notes/” to location specifier. I’ve tried using FWsimple and FW as the location specifier.

Please tell me how to use duplicate to copy the PDF to a folder.