Due to a issue with Safari crashing I had to perform an Archive & Install OS repair. I recovered my user account from Time Machine but there isn't enough space or time to download all the pictures, movies and installers. So I figured I'd just move them from the old account folder. Only the finder wanted to copy the folders not move them. It would move the files. So I wrote an AppleScript script to force it to move the folders. Remember this is only for moving folders on the same partition.
on run
tell application "Finder"
set theSource to choose folder with prompt "Source"
set theDestination to choose folder with prompt "Destination"
move items of theSource to theDestination
end tell
end run
[
crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. There was an
earlier hint about moving (rather than copying) and some of the comments there presented other alternatives.]