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Hello, I have run into a strange issue with my application written in AutoIT lately.  I was using the old Word.au3 UDF function WordDocSaveAs to save a word document to a UNC path.  I updated my code to use Water's new WordEx.au3 functions, and this resolved the previous issue I was having (a crash un-related to this issue).

With the new WordEx.au3 Word_DocSaveAs function I started to get failures saving to the UNC path I was previously saving the file to.  So I figured, maybe there was something different between the two Word UDFs.

So to work around this I just decided to save the Word document locally to the desktop first, and then use a FileCopy function to copy the file to the UNC path.  However, the FileCopy still failed as well.  So next I tried attempting the Filecopy within a For......Next Loop with a sleep of 10000 between attempts, thinking maybe their was just latency to the UNC path.

;attempt to copy Files up to 3 attempts
For $x = 1 to 3
If FileCopy($sourceFile, $destFile, 9) Then ExitLoop
Sleep(10000)
Next
 
;If the FileCopy fails more than 3 times
If $x > 3 Then
Msgbox(64, "Copy Failed!", "The copy was not able to complete successfully!")
 
Else
Msgbox(64, "Copy Complete!", "The copy completed successfully!")
EndIf
This continued to failed.  I would think that this was a permissions related issue to the UNC path, but I am able to browse to this location manually, and manually copy files over without issue.  In addition, I am able to access the UNC path directly from the Run command as well.  Any ideas as to why the filecopy function would not be able to write to the UNC path, but I obviously have permissions as I can create files manually there?   As for additional troubleshooting, I am displaying a messagebox to display my $sourceFile & $destFile variables and there are not any issues with the path names.  I have also tried putting " " around the paths but that does not seem to make a difference.  Any suggestions are appreciated as I am scratching my head on this one. 
 
-hogfan
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You talk about FileCopy but use DirCopy in your script :huh:

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Water -

Sorry about that.  I'm am using the example code in two different scripts.  I just copied the block of code as and example.  Copy & paste error on my part.  It should read FileCopy.  I will edit that to avoid any confusion.

-hogfan

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Can you post the values of $sourceFile and $destFile?

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The value of $destFile is:

server.domain.comshared0163LettersNew LettersCustomer Letters2013-Customer Letters (folder #2)

the value of $sourceFile is:

C:Documents & SettingsmyUsernameDesktopNew Customer Letter.doc

-hogfan

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Also, I find it odd that FileCopy to the UNC path doesn't work, but I am able to programmatically open the share with 

ShellExecute('"' & $destFile & '"')

and once that window opens I can manually drag and drop the file there from the desktop.

-hogfan

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Does

DriveMapAdd("*", "\\server.domain.com\shared")
MsgBox(0, "DriveMapAdd", "@error = " & @error)

work for you?

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Is $sourcefile actually set to "C:Documents & Settings" or is it set to "C:Documents and Settings"?

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@Brewman

It is actually set to "C:Documents and Settings".  I just typed in the path in my post.  Good catch though.  I've done some more digging and I'm still leaning to a possible permission related issue on the share......I found out it is a Novell share.  I just doesn't make sense that that I can shell to that path and then drag and drop a file there, but the filecopy fails.  

-hogfan

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Maybe give this one a try?

FileCopy("C:\Documents and Settings\myUsername\Desktop\New Customer Letter.doc", "\\?\UNC\server.domain.com\shared\0163\Letters\New Letters\Customer Letters\2013-Customer Letters (folder #2)\")
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