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07-01-2004, 01:02 PM

Justin-Credible Justin-Credible is offline

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CopyFile...

Code:

CopyFile CommonDialog1.filename, App.Path & "\temp\", True

Whats wrong with this code? I need to copy the file in the commondialog to the app.path\temp folder, but I need to keep the same name as the file as in the commondialog.filename.

Is there a way to copy a file to a folder without specifying the filename, just using the same filename instead?

Having a brain freeze here...

07-01-2004, 01:04 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Justin-Credible

Code:

[B]CopyFile[/B] CommonDialog1.filename, App.Path & "\temp\", True

Did you mean FileCopy?

07-01-2004, 01:31 PM

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CopyFile is a Windows API and would have to be declared. If you're trying to use the native VB function, it's as Jigo said.

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07-01-2004, 04:53 PM

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I *think* VB is getting confused and thinks you want to copy a file as a directory, instead of into one...
Add the filename to the directory, for example:

Code:

CopyFile "c:\test\myfile.ext", App.Path & "\temp\myfile.ext", True

From a full filename, its not too hard to break it up and work out what just the file is called.
I've a funny feeling thats whats going on though...
So, some sample code...

Code:

ls_fullFilename = commondialog1.filename
ls_file = Right$(ls_fullFilename, InStrRev(ls_fullFilename, "\"))
CopyFile CommonDialog1.filename, App.Path & "\temp\" & ls_file, True

Last edited by Chris J Locke; 07-01-2004 at 04:58 PM.

07-01-2004, 05:55 PM

Justin-Credible Justin-Credible is offline

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Thanks guys. Chris' example is what I'm going for; a way to find the file name (just the filename, not the entire path) from the CommonDialog.FileName.

I've been messing with the sample code, but I haven't gotten it to work...

07-01-2004, 05:58 PM

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Got it. Did a search on the forum and found the FileTitle property of CommonDialog returns the filename without the path.

Thanks for the help!