Move most recent 5 folders

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Created Jul ’20

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I am useless at AppleSCript / Automator, so Newbie apologises first ...

I am trying to move the 5 most recently created folders and their full contents from one folder to another.
He's what I have so far and I get the error 'Finder got an error: AppleEvent handler failed.'

tell application "Finder"

set sourceFolder to "/Users/admin/Desktop/TEST/IN"
get contents of sourceFolder
set targetFolder to "/Users/admin/Desktop/TEST/OUT"

move every item of sourceFolder to targetFolder

end tell

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red_menace OP

Jul ’20

The Finder doesn't know about POSIX paths, so you will need to use HFS paths, aliases, or coerce to the POSIX file class. A better approach might be to use System Events, which can handle POSIX paths.

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