is this a _filelisttoarray bug or do I misunderstand it

[speedi]

I have a problem, but it seems to have been caused by a bug in _filelisttoarray or I bady misunderstand it.

I thought I could use _filelisttoarray and then filecopy to copy from a source folder, all files, folders and files within those folders to another location, but that does not work... Someone please try this and tell me the result or tell me what I am doing wrong!!! Did the folders copy correctly? Can you view their contents with windows explorer? Mine end up as a file not a folder. Thanks!

the script follows:

#include <File.au3>

#Include <Array.au3>

; srcfolder can be any folder that has sub folders that have files

; desfolder can be any test or temporary folder you create

$srcFolder = @MyDocumentsDir ; Folder you wish to copy

$desFolder = "c:\testdir" ; Folder you wish to move files to

$aFiles = _FileListToArray($srcFolder)

; the count can be whatever it takes to get at least one sub folder and files copied

For $i = 1 To 200

filecopy($srcFolder & '\' & $aFiles[$i], $desFolder & '\' & $aFiles[$i], 9)

Next

Edited January 28, 2010 by speedi

[James]

Instead of defining counting from 1 to 200, you only want to run the loop for as many times as you have files.

For $i = 1 to Ubound($aFiles) -1

James

[GEOSoft]

The problem you are running into is probably the FileCopy() That won't work on folders so you have to put a conditional in there

$sSrc = $srcFolder & "\" & $aFiles[$i]
If StringInStr(FileGetAttrib($sSrc), "D") Then
   DirCopy($sSrc, $desFolder & '\' & $aFiles[$i])
Else
   FileCopy($sSrc, $desFolder & '\' & $aFiles[$i], 9)
EndIf

Also, when posting code, please highlite your code (select it by draging the mouse over it) and click the editor toolbar icon that looks like <>. That makes it much easier to read

[speedi]

The problem you are running into is probably the FileCopy() That won't work on folders so you have to put a conditional in there

$sSrc = $srcFolder & "\" & $aFiles[$i]
If StringInStr(FileGetAttrib($sSrc), "D") Then
   DirCopy($sSrc, $desFolder & '\' & $aFiles[$i])
Else
   FileCopy($sSrc, $desFolder & '\' & $aFiles[$i], 9)
EndIf

Also, when posting code, please highlite your code (select it by draging the mouse over it) and click the editor toolbar icon that looks like <>. That makes it much easier to read

Mr Nice Guy, You are the man... Your correction worked perfectly... Thank you... Now if I could get an answer to my other post about changing the file type so I can recover some files (just a few recent ones)... Thanks again and also for the tip on listing a script...

[speedi]

Instead of defining counting from 1 to 200, you only want to run the loop for as many times as you have files.

For $i = 1 to Ubound($aFiles) -1

James

the count was just to make the testing faster since there were a whole lot more files and folder... Edited January 28, 2010 by speedi

[GEOSoft]

Mr Nice Guy, You are the man... Your correction worked perfectly... Thank you... Now if I could get an answer to my other post about changing the file type so I can recover some files (just a few recent ones)... Thanks again and also for the tip on listing a script...

happy to hear it worked

What other post are you refering to? Please, don't make me hunt you down.

[speedi]

this one: http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=109003

i must leave until about 4-5:00 EST USA

Edited January 28, 2010 by speedi

[kaotkbliss]

OP, if you are looking for a way to change the properties from file to folder to recover files inside (as it sounds like that may have been what you think happened?)

I just recently had something like this happen as well, However, what happened was a file being copied was renamed to the folder name and with the overwrite flag used, the file copied over the folder.

The folder does not actually exist anymore and I bet if you add "." and the extension of the file, you will be able to use the file as it should. (I found this out because all the files I was moving were pdfs so when I added .pdf the the end of the folder name, adobe opened up and showed me the document file that had been renamed)

[James]

the count was just to make the testing faster since there were a whole lot more files and folder...

I'm just saying because otherwise you'll end up with an out of bounds error.