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[Eagle710]

When I try and use the DirCopy to copy an entire structure including all the files(URL shortcuts) or the FileCopy to copy a specific URL shortcut it doesnt work. Any ideas why?

Edited March 4, 2011 by Eagle710

[JohnOne]

Shall we just cast some voodoo spell, or are you going to show us your faulty code ?

EDIT:

Paste your code between two tags like this

[autoit]

Past your code here

[/autoit]

Edited February 7, 2011 by JohnOne

[Varian]

This may not be your issue, but if the path of the file to be copied is greater than 255 characters then Windows will fail to copy. The path includes the drive, the folder(s), and the file name.

EDIT: You may also have an issue with certain characters in the file name. Not that the file cannot be copied, but with your syntax, your script may error out. If you need more assistance post your relevant code, the error that you receive, and names of the files/directories that you are copying (if applicable).

Edited February 7, 2011 by Varian

[Eagle710]

No error messages appear. I will check the length of the source directory as it may be that long but I highly doubt it. Even when I try from a simple C:\Test\Test.url to C:\Users\Eagle710\Favorites\Links it doesn't work.

[Eagle710]

No single file is more than 255 ..only about 80 chars.

The line I am using is

FileCopy("C:\users\Eagle710\desktop\TEST\TEST.url", "C:\Favorites\Links\", 1)

DirCopy("E:\TEST\Favorites\", "C:\users\Eagle710\Favorites\")

E is my USB drive.

[somdcomputerguy]

Try #RequireAdmin. (Add that to the top of the script)

[Eagle710]

Tried with the RequireAdmin and it still doesn't work. Any other suggestions? Am I the only one who is having an issue with this?

Edited February 14, 2011 by Eagle710

[Varian]

Do the target directories exist already? Try

FileCopy("C:\users\Eagle710\desktop\TEST\TEST.url", "C:\Favorites\Links\", 1 + 8)
DirCopy("E:\TEST\Favorites\", "C:\users\Eagle710\Favorites\", 1)

[Eagle710]

The target directory does exist. I tried both those commands and it still doesnt work.

[Country73]

Have you tried:

If FileExists("C:\users\Eagle710\desktop\TEST\TEST.url") Then

Prior to copying the file?

Edited February 15, 2011 by Country73

[Eagle710]

I tried that but it still doesnt matter. Its very strange that it wont copy only url files. It will copy anything else between those two paths but not url extension files.

[saywell]

Do the URLs actually have .url extensions?

Windows seems to do funny things with links and urls! Like not showing the final extension even with explorer settings to show it!

I dragged some firefox links into a folder, along with one from IE and looked at them with this:

$file = FileOpenDialog ("Choose", "O:\Useful links etc", "All files (*.*)")
$a = FileGetLongName($file)
msgbox(0,"long file name", $a)

The firefox ones don't have .url at the end. The IE one does, but I get an error to say it's invalid! As I do if I copy one from my FF bookmarks folder.

William

PS might be worth trying file list to array or find file first/next and using those to copy them one at a time.

Edited February 15, 2011 by saywell

[Country73]

Just tested this out on my system, different path for my desktop, and it worked without a problem.

Just ran this inside of SciTE

Local $Target = "C:\users\Eagle710\desktop\TEST\TEST.url"
If FileExists($Target) Then
   FileCopy($Target, "C:\users\Eagle710\Favorites\",9)
Else
   ConsoleWrite("Unable to locate: " & $Target & @CRLF)
EndIf

[hannes08]

Hi Eagle710,

what happens when you try copying it over the command prompt?

Regards,

Hannes

[Eagle710]

When I look at the file through Command prompt the extension is .url. Copying via the command line works fine.

Should I just run a batch file to copy these files? call it from the AutoIT?

[Eagle710]

Could this have anything to do with Windows 7? I am running this AutoIT in windows 7.

[Eagle710]

Nobody has any other suggestions to try. I guess maybe I will try unzipping a file.

[Eagle710]

How could I use Xcopy to copy the urls over given the fact that a variable will be used in the destination folder name. Is the syntax for this code correct?

eg:

Run('xcopy /eq "c:\Temp\IE Favorites\All My Links\*" "C:\users\' &@username& 'Favorites\"')

[tnek]

Did anyone ever solve this? I am experiencing the same problem.

[BrewManNH]

What have you tried?