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FILE_MOVE - FILE_COPY [message #81801]

Fri, 26 October 2012 02:16

titan
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Registered: March 2006

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Hi all,
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:)).

I would like to rename a file.

for example:

fname=test_0.txt
new_fname= test_1.txt

Considering what is written in the IDL help it should be enough to do something like this:

"FILE_MOVE, fname, new_fname"

but when I try to do this I got the following error:

"FILE_MOVE: Destination must be a directory. File: test_1.txt"

I get the same error even if I try to move and rename the file to a new directory where I have write permissions.

FILE_MOVE, fname, output_path+new_fname

I have already used in this way this routine but I don't know why I'm facing this problem now.

The same is with FILE_COPY.

Does anybody know any suggestions/workarounds for this?

thanks in advance

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		FILE_MOVE - FILE_COPY By: titan on Fri, 26 October 2012 02:16
		Re: FILE_MOVE - FILE_COPY By: titan on Mon, 29 October 2012 00:42
		Re: FILE_MOVE - FILE_COPY By: David Fanning on Fri, 26 October 2012 07:38
		Re: FILE_MOVE - FILE_COPY By: titan on Fri, 26 October 2012 07:34
		Re: FILE_MOVE - FILE_COPY By: ben.bighair on Fri, 26 October 2012 06:21

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