move

[idle]

Maybe wrong place but am I the only one missing a move and overwrite function?

I tried the copy function, but that doen not overwrite either?

[scriptkitty]

From help

FileCopy ( "source", "dest" [,flag])

(optional) this flag determines whether to overwrite files if they already exist:

0 = (default) do not overwrite existing files

1 = overwrite existing files

If you want it to overwrite, use the flag, as such:

FileCopy ( "c:\test.txt", "c:\test2.txt",1 )

The file move doesn't have that part.

FileMove ( "source", "dest" )

You can do a test of exist first, or simply make your own move:

FileCopy ( "c:\test.txt", "c:\test2.txt",1 ) 
FileDelete ( "c:\test.txt" )

or

FileDelete ( "c:\test2.txt" ) 
Filemove ( "c:\test.txt", "c:\test2.txt")

I use access to create Excell files, and it has the bad feature of keeping info and not just making a clean file each time when you export, so I have a little delete script for it. It is also useful to use the overwrite function on programs that change defaults on you. I have my own defaults, and I use a little loader au3 file to place that one in each time before it runs.

Edited December 19, 2003 by scriptkitty

[spock]

Autoits move is different to windows with respect to a program file that is being run.

I run a program named netx.exe

Once it is executed you would think you could do anything with the executable file, But NOOOO

In windows I can not delete that particular exe file from the spot where it was run.

I can do what I like to other copies of that program anywhere else on the disk.

In windows explorer I can cut and past it to another folder, no complaint.

I can rename it to anything I like, but I cannot delete it.

In DOS I can move it anywhere else on the disk I like.

>move c:\"Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"\netx.exe c:\temp\"

I can do this via the LAN

BUT I cannot do this with AUTOIT's FILEMOVE()

I suspect that autoit copies the file from the original and then tries to delete the original becaude a copy does appear in the target folder

but the original is still in the source folder, because windows will not allow deletion.

AND windows just alters the directory entry for the file, saying it is somewhere else, hence avoiding the problem of deleting a locked file.

So the autoit move command half worked but gave an error message.

So its not a windows compatible FILEMOVE

[GEOSoft]

Well I'll be damned! Talk about someone re-appearing from the distant past. Good to see you are still among the living. BTW: Would it hurt you to drop by a bit more often?

[Valuater]

Well I'll be damned! Talk about someone re-appearing from the distant past. Good to see you are still among the living. BTW: Would it hurt you to drop by a bit more often?

Just a newbie posting on an Old... Old thread

Posted 19 December 2003 - 01:50 PM

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[GEOSoft]

I'm just having a Mark Martin day. Just when everything seems to be going good........

EDIT:

It looks like he was last active May of last year and I don't see any posts after Nov. 2005 which I would say is probably correct. Just blew my mind seeing someone from that far back and I didn't check the date.

Where have all the old-timers gone? Cyberslug, Scriptkitty, Tylo, SvenP, and on and on and on.

Edited April 1, 2010 by GEOSoft

[jchd]

@spock,

Of course resurrecting a six-year old thread is an achievement that makes you stand out of the crowd!

Now, to your point, you say in substance:

• I can rename and delete a running program under DOS
• I can rename but not delete nor move a running program with Explorer under Windows
• I can rename but not delete nor move a running program with AutoIt under Windows
• Therefore, AutoIt FileMove is not Windows-compatible.

Can you please care to reconsider so that we can put this thread back in it's grave?

[spock]

Too many things at once I guess: KISS

1. I can move a running program in DOS.

2. I can cut and past the same running program in windows explorer.

3. I can NOT filemove the same running program in autoit.

Which one of these things is not like the other?

[spock]

Too many things at once I guess: KISS

1. I can move a running program in DOS.

2. I can cut and past the same running program in windows explorer.

3. I can NOT filemove the same running program in autoit.

Which one of these things is not like the other?

Here is a test program

testmove.au3