omac12 Posted November 19, 2005 Share Posted November 19, 2005 Hello, my first post and first day trying out AutoIt. I am writing a script (or trying to) that will map 2 network drives and copy a file from those drives then go to a subdirectory on those drives to paste, rename the file, then copy the renamed file to the computer that will run the script. Basically, it looks like this so far. Dim $varDate Dim $varModDate $varDate = _NowDate() $varModDate = stringreplace($varDate,"/","-",0) $myFileName = "newfile" & $varModDate $myFileName2 = "newfile2" & $varModDate ; Map P drive to \\firstdrive\mydir using current user DriveMapAdd("P:", "\\firstdrive\mydir") FileCopy("P:\firstdrive\thisfile.txt, "P:\mydir\old\$myFileName") ; Map Q drive to \\seconddrive\mydir using current user DriveMapAdd("Q:", "\\seconddrive\mydir") FileCopy("Q:\seconddrive\thisfile.txt, "Q:\mydir\old\$myFileName") DriveMapDel( "P:" ) DriveMapDel( "Q:" ) I couldn't use the date format with forward slashes in my file name so I changed them to dashes. My problem seems to be either, my drive mapping is taking too long (it seems to under Windows 2000 explorer also), or I can't execute the FileCopy function on the remote drive. What am I doing wrong? Please help. Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developers Jos Posted November 19, 2005 Developers Share Posted November 19, 2005 (edited) Your DriveMap commends look confusing: DriveMapAdd("P:", \\firstdrive\mydir) isn't that : DriveMapAdd("P:", \\Servername\Sharename) ? This also doesn't look right : FileCopy("P:\firstdrive\thisfile.txt, "P:\mydir\old\$myFileName") Shoud be: FileCopy("P:\firstdrive\thisfile.txt, "P:\mydir\old\" & $myFileName) Are you also sure about the source directory ? Edited November 19, 2005 by JdeB SciTE4AutoIt3 Full installer Download page - Beta files Read before posting How to post scriptsource Forum etiquette Forum Rules Live for the present, Dream of the future, Learn from the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omac12 Posted November 19, 2005 Author Share Posted November 19, 2005 Thank you for your reply. Firstly, those aren't the actual names. I work at a casino that encourages us not to use actual sharenames whenever something isn't internal. The servername and sharename were \\firstdrive\mydir. What looks confusing about the second is I wanted to save to a subdirectory of that share. I tried the change to the filecopy syntax, and it errored out as well.AlYour DriveMap commends look confusing: DriveMapAdd("P:", \\firstdrive\mydir) isn't that :DriveMapAdd("P:", \\Servername\Sharename) ?This also doesn't look right : FileCopy("P:\firstdrive\thisfile.txt, "P:\mydir\old\$myFileName")Shoud be: FileCopy("P:\firstdrive\thisfile.txt, "P:\mydir\old\" & $myFileName)Are you also sure about the source directory ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omac12 Posted November 20, 2005 Author Share Posted November 20, 2005 Thank you for your reply. Firstly, those aren't the actual names. I work at a casino that encourages us not to use actual sharenames whenever something isn't internal. The servername and sharename were \\firstdrive\mydir. What looks confusing about the second is I wanted to save to a subdirectory of that share. I tried the change to the filecopy syntax, and it errored out as well.AlI've just found that this has to be done right now so I am going to do a very quick vb program. Thank you for your help.Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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