Move Folder

[Noél Dubau]

Hello,

I need to move a folder to another one to archive it.

In the sample file of SM is a Move Or Rename File ; the notes says

This renames and/or moves a source file or folder to a destination file or folder. This returns a 1 if it is successful and a 0 otherwise. This will fail if the destination parent folder does not exist, or if you try to move between two volumes.

and seems what I hope.

I try the following params under Windows :

originalPath = /c:/GestALSH/Factures_PDF/E2011_2012

moveToPath = /c:/GestALSH/Archives/

It returns me alway 0 and I dont'see where is my error !

Thanks for help

Noël

Edit :

a- the tries I did seem show that moving is not possible if there are subdirectories

b- it runs on the mac and not the pc

[clemhoff]

Noël,

If you want to move the folder "c:/GestALSH/Factures_PDF/E2011_2012" to the "Archives" directory of "c:/GestALSH/" then you have to set your destination path to "c:/GestALSH/Archives/E2011_2012"

REM: the destination directory must not exists prior to the move process. (first check if "c:/GestALSH/Archives/E2011_2012" exists, if yes, rename your destination directory or delete the existing one.)

[Noél Dubau]

Thanks for your help !

As I edited it works fine on the Mac, but not on the PC (seven hosted //), even following your REM. Leaving for this afternoon....

Noël

[Noél Dubau]

Hello Clemhoff

Once or twice you drived my Mac from yours ; every time you told that it was a famous boredom !

So I tried this afternoon on 2 PC and got the same bad result !

Fortunaly, I found on this forum what you called "the lazy way" when helping a very bad pupil named Noël : it's there ; I was to novice and didn't try it : it works fine ! Thanks one more time !

Noël