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jase71ds
PostPosted: March 30th, 2011, 4:31 pm 
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Hi all.
I've googled and read but I still need help.

The literature showed me how to copy a folder and it's contents to another destination via the script:

FileCopyDir, Source, Dest

It works well, but I need to run this command each day, and I want to keep archives, not overwrite the folder each time. So what I'd like, after copying the folder to the destination, is a script that would append a Date stamp to the folder name.

Thus: My_Folder
becomes: My_Folder20110330
or something similar.

I've looked at the "append" function, but it doesn't seem to work as I need it to.

Sincere thanks for any help.

Jase.


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PostPosted: March 30th, 2011, 4:49 pm 
Did not try it but should be something like this:

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Dest := MyFolder . A_YYYY . A_MM . A_DD
FileCopyDir,Source, Dest


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PostPosted: March 30th, 2011, 6:56 pm 
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Anonymous wrote:
Did not try it but should be something like this:

Code:
Dest := MyFolder . A_YYYY . A_MM . A_DD
FileCopyDir,Source, Dest


This is what I have:
Code:
FileCopyDir, Source_Folder, Destination_Folder . A_YYYY . A_MM . A_DD ,1


I end up with the folder named:
Destination_Folder . A_YYYY . A_MM . A_DD

It's not interpretting the date codes -- rather it's literally putting "A_YYYY" etc

Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong?


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PostPosted: March 30th, 2011, 7:20 pm 
use %% on variables


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PostPosted: March 30th, 2011, 7:31 pm 
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jase71ds wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Did not try it but should be something like this:

Code:
Dest := MyFolder . A_YYYY . A_MM . A_DD
FileCopyDir,Source, Dest


This is what I have:
Code:
FileCopyDir, Source_Folder, Destination_Folder . A_YYYY . A_MM . A_DD ,1


I end up with the folder named:
Destination_Folder . A_YYYY . A_MM . A_DD

It's not interpretting the date codes -- rather it's literally putting "A_YYYY" etc

Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong?


The correct sintax is:
Code:
FileCopyDir, Source_Folder, % "Destination_Folder" . A_YYYY . A_MM . A_DD ,1 


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PostPosted: May 27th, 2011, 10:56 pm 
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[quote="WdbThe correct sintax is:
Code:
FileCopyDir, Source_Folder, % "Destination_Folder" . A_YYYY . A_MM . A_DD ,1 
[/quote]

Hey, many thanks. I implemented this and it works perfectly. Sorry it took me so long to return and say "thank you!"


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