Time trigger doesn't work with CopyTo in Google Spreadsheet - google-apps-script

Question

I've this code in a google spreadsheet which works well when I run it with an interactive execution:
var originalSpreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var original = originalSpreadsheet.getSheetByName("Sheet1");
var newSpreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.create("New");
original.copyTo(newSpreadsheet);
But if I run it with a time trigger it creates correctly the "New" spreadsheet, but the copyTo command doesn't copy anything of the original spreadsheet in it.
Have I made some mistake?
I use Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 and Chrome.

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comment above the sheet copy has a new name because Sheet1 exists by default when you create the spreadsheet. You can avoid this with a small change in your code. See code below
function test(){
var originalSpreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var original = originalSpreadsheet.getSheetByName("Sheet1");
var newSpreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.create("New");
var defaultSheet = newSpreadsheet.getSheetByName('Sheet1').setName('xxx');
original.copyTo(newSpreadsheet).setName('Sheet1');
newSpreadsheet.deleteSheet(defaultSheet);
}
or, more simply, you can also copy the spreadsheet itself directly (if you want to copy the whole content of the original spreadsheet)
function test(){
var originalSpreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var newSpreadsheet = originalSpreadsheet.copy('new')
}
This option will copy the script as well, the copy is a "clone" of the original.