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Re: FILE_MOVE - FILE_COPY [message #81900 is a reply to message #81801]

Fri, 26 October 2012 06:21

ben.bighair
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Registered: April 2007

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On Friday, October 26, 2012 5:16:29 AM UTC-4, titan wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I'm experiencing a strange behavior of IDL when using FILE_MOVE and FILE_COPY and I'm not able to understand what is going on (probably because it's Friday:)).
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> I would like to rename a file.
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> for example:
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> fname=test_0.txt
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> new_fname= test_1.txt
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> Considering what is written in the IDL help it should be enough to do something like this:
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> "FILE_MOVE, fname, new_fname"
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> but when I try to do this I got the following error:
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> "FILE_MOVE: Destination must be a directory. File: test_1.txt"
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> I get the same error even if I try to move and rename the file to a new directory where I have write permissions.
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> FILE_MOVE, fname, output_path+new_fname
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> I have already used in this way this routine but I don't know why I'm facing this problem now.
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> The same is with FILE_COPY.
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Hi,

The documentation* for FILE_MOVE says the destination must be a directory if the source points to more than one file.

"If more than one file is to be moved to a given destination, that destination must exist and be a directory."

Are you sure-sure-sure that 'fname' is a scalar? You might try...

FILE_MOVE, fname[0], new_fname

Cheers,
Ben

* http://www.exelisvis.com/docs/FILE_MOVE.html (online - woooohooooo!)

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