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Good day,

I am having an issue opening a folder. I tried several ways to get AutoIT to open C:\Windows\System32\oobeInfoBackgrounds without success, so I thought I would try the batch file method. Its running on a Windows 7 system.

I have this line in my script

@ScriptDir run ("open folder.bat")

'open folder.bat' conisist of this line

start "" "C:\Windows\System32\oobeInfoBackgrounds"

Running the batch file opens the folder without issue. However, when AutoIT launches the bat, I get this error:

'Windows cannot find 'C:\Windows\System32\oobeInfoBackgrounds'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.

The script is setup to copy background files to my desktop and then ideally to the Backgrounds folder. Since I couldnt get this to work, I am trying get the folder to open so I can drag and drop from my desktop.

Thanks for the assist!

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If you're just copying files, why do you need it to open Windows Explorer to the folder?

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Ill be changing the background each time I update the image. The script reads a file on the target drive to determine the background to use, copies the background to the desktop - renaming in the process, and then replaces the existing files.

If it was just a one time even, the script would be overkill. But since its going to be a monthly event on several images, I thought I would make life easier - or so I thought.

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That doesn't actually explain what I asked, why are you opening Windows Explorer to do a simple filecopy process? Why do you need a visual representation of the files to do that?

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Here is the entire code, hopefully it will shed some light to what I am trying to do. And I have already tried '#requireadmin'  :)

 

#NoTrayIcon
#include <FileConstants.au3>
#include <Constants.au3>
#include <StringConstants.au3>
#include <GuiConstants.au3>
#include <GuiListView.au3>
#include <ListBoxConstants.au3>
#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <WinAPIFiles.au3>
#include <file.au3>
#RequireAdmin
#AutoIt3Wrapper_Res_requestedExecutionLevel=RequireAdministrator

;If IsAdmin() Then MsgBox ($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "The script is running with admin rights"

Example()

Func Example()

   ; Create a constant variable in Local scope of the filepath that will be read/written to.
    ;Local Const $sFilePath = "@WindowsDir & 'LOAD.txt'"
    Local Const $sFilePath = "C:WindowsLOAD.txt"

    ; Open the file for reading and store the handle to a variable.
    Local $hFileOpen = FileOpen($sFilePath, $FO_READ)
    If $hFileOpen = -1 Then
        MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "An error occurred when reading the file.")
        Return False
    EndIf

    ; Read the fist line of the file using the handle returned by FileOpen.
    Local $InstalledImage = FileReadLine($hFileOpen, 1)

    ; Close the handle returned by FileOpen.
    FileClose($hFileOpen)

;MsgBox(48,"", $InstalledImage & " Is installed" ,15)
;Sleep(5000)

   Select
   Case $InstalledImage = "SMALL"
   ;FileDelete ("C:\Windows\System32\oobeinfobackgrounds*.*")
   MsgBox(48, "", "Small Image installed",15)
   FileCopy (@ScriptDir & "N-Small-background1920x1200.jpg", @DesktopDir & "background1920x1200.jpg")
   FileCopy (@ScriptDir & "N-Small-backgroundDefault.jpg", @DesktopDir & "backgroundDefault.jpg")
   Sleep(2000)
   ;FileMove (@DesktopDir & 'background.jpg', @WindowsDir & 'system32oobeinfobackgroundsbackground.jpg')
   ;FileMove (@DesktopDir & 'background1920x1200.jpg', @WindowsDir & 'system32oobeinfobackgroundsbackground1920x1200.jpg')

   Case $InstalledImage = "MEDIUM"
   MsgBox(48,"", "Medium Image installed",15)
     ;FileDelete ("C:\Windows\System32\oobeinfobackgrounds*.*")
   FileCopy (@ScriptDir & "N-Medium-background1920x1200.jpg", @DesktopDir & "background1920x1200.jpg")
   FileCopy (@ScriptDir & "N-Medium-backgroundDefault.jpg", @DesktopDir & "backgroundDefault.jpg")
   Sleep(2000)
   ;FileMove (@DesktopDir & 'background.jpg', @WindowsDir & 'system32oobeinfobackgroundsbackground.jpg')
   ;FileMove (@DesktopDir & 'background1920x1200.jpg', @WindowsDir & 'system32oobeinfobackgroundsbackground1920x1200.jpg')

   Case $InstalledImage = "LARGE"
   MsgBox(48,"", "Large Image installed",15)
     FileDelete ("C:\Windows\System32\oobeinfobackgrounds*.*")
   FileCopy (@ScriptDir & "N-Large-background1920x1200.jpg", @DesktopDir & "background1920x1200.jpg")
   FileCopy (@ScriptDir & "N-Large-backgroundDefault.jpg", @DesktopDir & "backgrounddDefault.jpg")
   Sleep(2000)
   ;FileCopy (@DesktopDir & "backgroundDefault.jpg", "C:\Windows\System32\oobeinfobackgrounds")
   ;FileCopy (@DesktopDir & "background1920x1200.jpg", "C:\Windows\System32\oobeinfobackgrounds")
   EndSelect

EndFunc

   MsgBox(48,"", "Move background files from Desktop to C:\Windows\System32\oobeinfobackgrounds",15)
   @ScriptDir run ("open folder.bat")
Exit

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Most of your script works just fine for me. I did see in this line:

Local Const $sFilePath = "@WindowsDir & '\LOAD.txt'"

You enclosed @WindowsDir in your quotes. It should be:

Local Const $sFilePath = @WindowsDir & "\LOAD.txt"

Most everything else worked once I removed all your commented lines. For the line calling your batch file:

@ScriptDir run ("open folder.bat")

should be:

Run (@ScriptDir & "\open folder.bat")

Aside from these few mistakes, I didn't see a lot that caused me trouble. Can you please let us know where else you're having problems?

Edited by JLogan3o13

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JLogon,

Thanks for your feedback.

When I replaced

@ScriptDir Run  ("open folder.bat")

with

Run (@ScriptDir & "open folder.bat")

The error of not being able to find the target went away, but the folder did not open. As you can tell by the script, I commented out (using  ';') the lines where the script would copy the file from my desktop to the target folder. I also tried FileMove.

 

This line should copy the jpg to the 'backgrounds' folder, but nothing happens. It may be a permissions issue but I am running the script logged on as an admin.

   FileCopy (@DesktopDir & "background1920x1200.jpg", "C:\Windows\System32\oobeinfobackgrounds")

 

Thanks for the tip with reading the line

Local Const $sFilePath = @WindowsDir & "LOAD.txt"

I

I had actually used the direct path of C:WindowsLOAD.txt in the following line to work around the issue of reading this file.

 

As you can tell, LOAD.text contains either 'Small', 'Medium' or 'Large', which in turn are used to determine which backgroud files to copy over.

 

As a work around, I created three seperate batch files that do the job. The beauty of this script is that I wouldnt have to worry about running the wrong batch file since the script reads a file on the image to determine which background files to copy over.

 

 

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Can you post the contents of the batch file? Is it running and just not opening the folder, or not running at all?

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Here are the contents of the batch file - one line only

     start "" "C:\Windows\System32\oobeInfoBackgrounds"

Running the batch file by itself, it opens the folder in Windows Explorer.

Running the batch file from the original script, I get the error that the folder cannot be found.

     @ScriptDir run ("open folder.bat")

Running the batch file with the suggested change to the script, nothing happens.

     Run (@ScriptDir & "open folder.bat")

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As lorenkinzel points to above, if your batch file is only the one line, better to just open the folder with AutoIt and keep .bat files out of the mix altogether.

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It is, however the OP has been adamant that he would like to open the folder in Explorer as well. See post #2 and #3.

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The only reason I am trying to open the folder is because the copy from desktop to "C:\Windows\System32\oobeInfoBackgrounds" dosnt work. Opening up the folder is a workaround.

The ultimate goal of this script is to

1. Read the contents of C:WIndows.LOAD.txt to determine what backgound images to use

2. Copy and rename the desired backgound images to the desktop

3. Move the images from the desktop to the target folder.

The backgound files are on a network share and Windows prevents copying from a network share straight to target folder. This is why the copying to the desktop was incorporated.

I hope this clears up what I am trying to accomplish.

Thanks again for all the suggestions :)

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As I mentioned in post #9, aside from a few syntax changes your script was working for me. Can you please clarify which piece isn't working (i.e. what debugging have you put in place, and on which of the 3 steps is it failing)?

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The backgound files are on a network share and Windows prevents copying from a network share straight to target folder. This is why the copying to the desktop was incorporated.

...

Why not copy it locally, to a temp dir, then move it to the final location?

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Try 

#RequireAdmin

$sSourceFile = @DesktopDir & "\background1920x1200.jpg"
$sDestDir = "C:\Windows\System32\oobe\Info\Backgrounds\"

FileCopy($sSourceFile,$sDestDir,1+8)

And

#RequireAdmin

$sSourceFile = @DesktopDir & "\background1920x1200.jpg"
$sDestDir = "C:\Windows\System32\oobe\Info\Backgrounds\"

If FileExists($sDestDir) = 1 Then
DirRemove($sDestDir,1)
EndIf

FileCopy($sSourceFile,$sDestDir,1+8)

One of this MUST work

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