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Article #2496Re: Problem with File.copy() -- should this work?
From: Peter Kahrel
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:56
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:56
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You can set the current folder like this:
Folder.current = "/d/test1/test2"
Then change to that current folder's parent using
Folder.current = ".."
But you can't use .. in file masks. This won't work:
var myFiles = Folder.cuttent.getFiles ("../*.jsx")
The only way of using .. (as far as I can see) is with literal filenames:
myFile = '../nonsense.txt'
which points to nonsense.txt in current folder's parent folder. But this is unclear as you dont't have a reference to the current folder in your statement. I agree that using relative file paths is vague and it looks as if they're best avoided.
Why copy() returns true when in fact it hasn't worked looks like a bug. I've tried it a couple of times and on Windows it gives the same results as with you: copy() says true when nothing's happened.
Peter
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