Moving files and keeping paths

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I'm making a program that moves files that is older than a choosen date. My problem is that i need to keep/make the same path the files had before they where moved. i.e

File to be moved is in "c:\backup\" and i choose that files that are found should be moved to "f:\gigastorage\" the program now need to create "f:\gigastorage\backup\" before moving the file.

I get the files moved but they don't keep their original paths. Anyone got a solution for this?

Posted 28-Sep-11 22:05pm

bbthemean

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bbthemean 29-Sep-11 4:34am

Forgot to say that i'm fairly new to vb so please explain to me as basic as possible.

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-28T22:18:00

Solution 1

You have to specify the path when you call the File.Move method.
So, you want to strip off the "C:" part (find the first instance of '\' or '/' in the source path, and use that as the start of a Substring operation). Then append that to the destination path.

Posted 28-Sep-11 22:18pm

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bbthemean 29-Sep-11 4:31am

Thanks for reply.

This is what i got that doesn't work as wanted.
aFile.MoveTo(nameToDirectory.FullName & "\" & aFile.Name)

OriginalGriff 29-Sep-11 4:36am

Show us slightly more code - so we can tell what "aFile" is, and so forth.

OriginalGriff 29-Sep-11 4:37am

Oh, and do you get any error?

bbthemean 29-Sep-11 4:38am

Public Shared Function MoveWithFilesInDir(ByVal aDir As DirectoryInfo, ByVal nameToDirectory As DirectoryInfo) As Long
Dim aFile As FileInfo
Dim n As Long = 0

For Each aFile In aDir.GetFiles()
If aFile.LastWriteTime < Form1.DateTimePicker1.Value Then
Try
aFile.MoveTo(nameToDirectory.FullName & "\" & aFile.Name)

n = n + 1
Write2Log(aFile.FullName & " _ " & aFile.LastWriteTime)

Catch ex As Exception

MsgBox(ex.Message)

End Try
End If
Next

MoveWithFilesInDir = n

End Function

no errors running the program

OriginalGriff 29-Sep-11 5:24am

Curious - it worked fine for me:

MoveWithFilesInDir(New DirectoryInfo("D:\Temp\MoveMe"), New DirectoryInfo("D:\Temp\MovedTo"))

Or at least, it did once I created both folders. Until then I got a message box complaining it "couldn't find part of the file path"

What is happening for you?

bbthemean 29-Sep-11 5:29am

It searches trough all folders as it should and move the files that meets the set criteria, to the folder i have choosen. It does this but everything is put in the folde i choose, not with the path it was found in.. But i want it to make/maintain the structure it had before it was moved to the folder i've choosen. ie

First file is found in c:\temp\ and gets moved to f:\storage\temp\

Second file is found in c:\temp\january\16th\ and gets moved to f:\storage\temp\january\16th\

OriginalGriff 29-Sep-11 6:12am

Ah! Simple - you are not telling it to put them in separate folders. You are never changing the nameToDirectory, so it always puts them in the same folder - aFile.Name contains no path info (or it wouldn't work, the new path would be "D:\Temp\MovedTo\D:\Temp\MoveMe\MyFile" which would cause an exception.
You must either change the nameToDirectory to reflect the new path when you call MoveWithFilesInDir or append the path to the output as I originally suggested.

bbthemean 29-Sep-11 6:46am

Yeah, i have rewritten most of the code now and added a few diffrent strings so now it works. Now i just have to add some barriers that stop the program from moving files from major dirs like "windows".

Thanks for you help m8.