Move command issue with System Events

Hi everybody.
I just want to clean my desktop and move every item to a folder in Documents.
This is the script.

set rutaCarpetaInboxDeDocumentos to ((path to documents folder) as text) & "inbox:"
set fechaActual to (current date) as text
set nombreCarpeta to "Limpieza de escritorio del " & fechaActual
tell application "System Events"
	set laCarpeta to make new folder at (folder rutaCarpetaInboxDeDocumentos) with properties {name:nombreCarpeta}
	move (disk items) of desktop to laCarpeta
end tell

I get an error with the command “move”: Can´t get every disk item of desktop.
Any help?

Thanks in advance.

how about:

tell application "Finder"
	set laCarpeta to make new folder at (folder rutaCarpetaInboxDeDocumentos) with properties {name:nombreCarpeta}
	move every file of desktop to laCarpeta
end tell

Thanks @sphil!
It works ok in Finder. I already test it.
What I can’t understand is the reason why it doesn’t work in System Events.
It seems so simple…

Hi.

  1. It’s possible that your (current date) as text result contains colons, which aren’t allowed in file or folder names. But I don’t know how time strings are formatted on your system.

  2. ‘desktop’ in System Events refers to the desktop picture settings. The desktop folder’s called the — er — ‘desktop folder’.

  3. ‘disk items’ in System Events include invisible files like “.DS_Store” and “.localized”.

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Thanks @NigelGarvey .
I made two changes.

  1. desktop -> path to desktop
  2. new variable (itemsToMove) to store the references to move.

And now, it works.

set path_to_inbox_folder to ((path to documents folder) as text) & "inbox:"
set current_date to (current date) as text
set desktop_folder to (path to desktop)
set folder_name to "Limpieza de escritorio del " & current_date

tell application "System Events"
	set itemsToMove to disk items of desktop_folder
	set theFolder to make new folder at (folder path_to_inbox_folder) with properties {name:folder_name}
	move itemsToMove to theFolder
end tell

Thanks again.