Help with defining @MyDocumentsDir

[failedtocompile]

Hello Again

I created a topic the other day Other Topic

which has been resolved. I have now tried to implement into a new test environment which has users My Documents redirected onto a server share

e.g. \\server101\user101\my documents

Code that was working for standalone computers with local my documents.

RunWait('"C:\Program Files\?? ??\??\WIZ.EXE" /q /f /s " & @MyDocumentsDir & \officebkup\officebkup.OPS"')

Is there a way to make @MyDocumentsDir = %HomeShare%\officebkup\officebkup.OPS

I have tried this:

RunWait('"C:\Program Files\?? ??\??\WIZ.EXE" /q /f /s " & %HomeShare% & \officebkup\officebkup.OPS"')

Only problem is it saves it to C:\Program Files\?? ??\??\%HomeShare%\officebkup\officebkup.ops .

Do i need to added more double quotes? or can i reassign @MyDocumentsDir to - %HomeShare% .

Thanks in advance

Failedtocompile

Edited June 16, 2009 by failedtocompile

[martin]

Hello Again

I created a topic the other day Other Topic

which has been resolved. I have now tried to implement into a new test environment which has users My Documents redirected onto a server share

e.g. \\server101\user101\my documents

Code that was working for standalone computers with local my documents.

RunWait('"C:\Program Files\?? ??\??\WIZ.EXE" /q /f /s " & @MyDocumentsDir & \officebkup\officebkup.OPS"')

Is there a way to make @MyDocumentsDir = %HomeShare%\officebkup\officebkup.OPS

I have tried this:

RunWait('"C:\Program Files\?? ??\??\WIZ.EXE" /q /f /s " & %HomeShare% & \officebkup\officebkup.OPS"')

Only problem is it saves it to C:\Program Files\?? ??\??\%HomeShare%\officebkup\officebkup.ops .

Do i need to added more double quotes? or can i reassign @MyDocumentsDir to - %HomeShare% .

Thanks in advance

Failedtocompile

When you say that this was working

RunWait('"C:\Program Files\?? ??\??\WIZ.EXE" /q /f /s " & @MyDocumentsDir & \officebkup\officebkup.OPS"')

I assume you mean that it saved into

C:\Program Files\?? ??\??\@MyDocumentsDir\officebkup\officebkup.ops

and the @MyDocumentsDir macro was not used at all.

You cannot assign a value to a macro like @MyDocumentsDir. Macros are read only and they represent some code in AutoIt which reads a value from the registry for example or calculates some value. All you need is to have your own variable.

I assume that HomeShare is an eviromental variable in which case you can read it with EnvGet("HomeShare").

$MyHomeShare = EnvGet("HomeShare") 
RunWait('"C:\Program Files\?? ??\??\WIZ.EXE" /q /f /s "' & $MyHomeShare & '\officebkup\officebkup.OPS"')

Please note that I have inserted 2 inverted commas, one before and one after $MyHomeSHare which I think you missed out in your example.

[rajeshontheweb]

hmm the best thing would be to use a variable to store tbe command path as i had mentioned in the other script. this is kind of situations which made me use variables to store paths rather than actually using them at runtime.

viz., instead of

@MyDocumentsDir & \officebkup\officebkup.OPS

i would use

$path = @MyDocumentsDir & \officebkup\officebkup.OPS

similarly

$path =%HomeShare%& \officebkup\officebkup.OPS

but beware, rather than using enviroment variables, u better expand the environment variables to and pass the autoit value to path which willbe much more foolproof.

$path = EnvGet("HomeShare") & "\officebkup\officebkup.OPS"

would work better, in my guess, and of course, if spaces are there, i would again recommend using filegetshortname while passing it to command prompt...

oooooh, while i was updating my message for envget, martin has posted already!!!

Edited June 16, 2009 by rajeshontheweb

[failedtocompile]

When you say that this was working

RunWait('"C:\Program Files\?? ??\??\WIZ.EXE" /q /f /s " & @MyDocumentsDir & \officebkup\officebkup.OPS"')

I assume you mean that it saved into

C:\Program Files\?? ??\??\@MyDocumentsDir\officebkup\officebkup.ops

and the @MyDocumentsDir macro was not used at all.

You cannot assign a value to a macro like @MyDocumentsDir. Macros are read only and they represent some code in AutoIt which reads a value from the registry for example or calculates some value. All you need is to have your own variable.

I assume that HomeShare is an eviromental variable in which case you can read it with EnvGet("HomeShare").

$MyHomeShare = EnvGet("HomeShare") 
RunWait('"C:\Program Files\?? ??\??\WIZ.EXE" /q /f /s "' & $MyHomeShare & '\officebkup\officebkup.OPS"')

Please note that I have inserted 2 inverted commas, one before and one after $MyHomeSHare which I think you missed out in your example.

Thanks Martin & rajeshontheweb, that worked no problems at all.

This Community forum by far is the best for support, and Im learning heaps small steps at a time.

Thanks again