Bagel Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 I know I'm probably missing something simple and obvious here but I can't see what it is. I didn't see anything in the help file that could help me with this and I've seen similar examples working in other topics so I can't explain it. #include <Array.au3> #include <MsgBoxConstants.au3> #include <WinAPISysWin.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> #include <Inet.au3> #Include <File.au3> #include <FileConstants.au3> #include <WinAPIFiles.au3> #include <TrayConstants.au3> #include <Date.au3> $FileName = "C:\" & @YEAR & "-" & @MON & "-" & @MDAY & "-" & "TEST" & "-" & _DateTimeFormat(_NowCalc(), 5) & ".txt" ConsoleWrite ( $FileName ) $Variable = 6 $File = FileOpen($FileName, 1) FileWriteLine($File, "This is a test to see if I can write lines and variables to a text file... " & $Variable & @CRLF ) FileClose($File) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subz Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Try adding #RequireAdmin to the top of the script maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nine Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 #RequireAdmin is mandatory to write c:\. Also you can't use : inside file name. “They did not know it was impossible, so they did it” ― Mark Twain Spoiler Block all input without UAC Save/Retrieve Images to/from Text Monitor Management (VCP commands) Tool to search in text (au3) files Date Range Picker Virtual Desktop Manager Sudoku Game 2020 Overlapped Named Pipe IPC HotString 2.0 - Hot keys with string x64 Bitwise Operations Multi-keyboards HotKeySet Recursive Array Display Fast and simple WCD IPC Multiple Folders Selector Printer Manager GIF Animation (cached) Screen Scraping Multi-Threading Made Easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagel Posted September 3, 2019 Author Share Posted September 3, 2019 I tried #RequireAdmin but also tried another directory on my desktop. The following works fine but using the original FileName with the date and times fails silently: #include <Array.au3> #include <MsgBoxConstants.au3> #include <WinAPISysWin.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> #include <Inet.au3> #Include <File.au3> #include <FileConstants.au3> #include <WinAPIFiles.au3> #include <TrayConstants.au3> #include <Date.au3> #RequireAdmin ;$FileName = "C:\" & @YEAR & "-" & @MON & "-" & @MDAY & "-" & "TEST" & "-" & _DateTimeFormat(_NowCalc(), 5) & ".txt" $FileName = "C:\TEST4.txt" ConsoleWrite ( $FileName ) $Variable = 6 $File = FileOpen($FileName, 1) FileWriteLine($File, "This is a test to see if I can write lines and variables to a text file... " & $Variable & @CRLF ) FileClose($File) I was able to create this on the desktop as well without RequireAdmin but can't see why the compound name fails. And that's what I need to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrancescoDiMuro Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 3 hours ago, Bagel said: but can't see why the compound name fails. Did you see what @Nine wrote? When you use _DateTimeFormat() and _NowCalc() functions, you are using a character that Windows doesn't allow in a filename. Could you please post what is returned if you try this? ConsoleWrite(_Now() & @CRLF) Click here to see my signature: Spoiler ALWAYS GOOD TO READ: Forum Rules Forum Etiquette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagel Posted September 3, 2019 Author Share Posted September 3, 2019 OH! Because of the format I selected for the date a while ago I didn't explicitly see that it was adding colons into the file name, saw the colon in the drive directory and noticed that it was working with one of my tests and didn't think anything more of it. Didn't help that FileOpen was failing silently. This is what I get for not stopping after getting burned out working on this project. Thanks! The following code works perfectly: #include <Array.au3> #include <MsgBoxConstants.au3> #include <WinAPISysWin.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> #include <Inet.au3> #Include <File.au3> #include <FileConstants.au3> #include <WinAPIFiles.au3> #include <TrayConstants.au3> #include <Date.au3> #RequireAdmin $FileName = "C:\" & @YEAR & "-" & @MON & "-" & @MDAY & "-" & "TEST" & "-" & StringReplace( _DateTimeFormat(_NowCalc(), 5) , ":", "-" ) & ".txt" $DateTest = StringReplace( _DateTimeFormat(_NowCalc(), 5) , ":", "-" ) ConsoleWrite ( $FileName & @CRLF ) $Variable = 6 $File = FileOpen($FileName, 1) FileWriteLine($File, "This is a test to see if I can write lines and variables to a text file... " & $Variable & @CRLF ) FileClose($File) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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