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Upgraded just now to the latest AutoIt version. It's having trouble with the _DateMonthOfYear function that is found in a good many of my scripts. I usu. manage to fix the discrepancies that occur between upgrades but this one I don't know where the problem lies.

Can anyone help with this one? I rely on the dating functions of AI for automated dating of files and folders, etc.

Thanks.

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I don't know the function _DateMonthOfYear, but maybe you need the function _DateToMonth coming with AutoIt.

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I don't know the function _DateMonthOfYear, but maybe you need the function _DateToMonth coming with AutoIt.

Yeah, I didn't know where that was coming from. It wasn't in the Include (UDF) folder after the upgrade which is what had me stumped.

I ended up reversing the upgrade. I put back my old program files and restored my "Include" folder to what it was, and all my scripts worked again. That prompted me to seach again for this function and, this time, the search for content found it. _DateMonthOfYear was in DATE.AU3 so I'm guessing that since I overwrote the old Include folder, that the new DATE.AU3 doesn't have this.

So, finally, a valuable lesson was learned. I'd stopped updating regularly when each upgrade made a lot of my scripts fail. So from now on I'll initially leave my UDF "Include" folder alone. Then, after manually updating the main files like I always do, then I'll do a file compare between my Include folder and new one and only move completely new non-same-name UDFs over. Then comparing same-named ones will allow me to see any new code that I can integrate with code in same-named older UDFs, hopefully without creating code inconsistencies/incompatibilities. I'm guessing that this won't happen a lot.

Funny how it took this one upgrade to highlight exactly where upgrade problems happened in the past. But that dating function was in too many scripts so I guess that's what easily highlighted the problem. At any rate, I'll test by putting back in the new install files and carefully working with upgrading the Include folder.

Thanks.

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Which version of AutoIt were you using before upgrade?

Doesn't the version notes mention anything about this function in some release in between?

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Which version of AutoIt were you using before upgrade?

Doesn't the version notes mention anything about this function in some release in between?

Maybe it does. But I don't keep up with updates. I have so many applications that if I kept up with updating them all, I'd spend more time doing than working, almost <g>.

Yesterday I went through my old Include folder and the new one and did what I said I'd do. I compared both and copied over all news ones and kept the ones I know that upgrading will break my old scripts and put the newer ones in a separate folder. I think this is going to work better than the just upgrading the folder throwing the old one out. Didn't know any better before. I think that that's the best approach for me. I often go and dl scripts and they often don't work with newer UDFs. This way, it might not be ideal, but I won't have to completely re-write or toss old scripts, I'll just have to add new UDF references when I find the errors they stop at. I know you guys probably have a better way of doing things, but every upgrade sees a ton of my older scripts stop working and functionality is more important to me than perfect code. As long as something works, that's what counts.

So we learn as we go along. Thanks. :x

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