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[zooz]

Hi there,

I know that I can look at %errorlevel% after I use "Filecopy" to see if it succeeded or failed but I wanna know why it failed (so I can fix whats bothering it and try again).

Is there a way to do this?

P.S. same question goes to filemove as well.

[zooz]

Anyone?
Please?

Even an authoritative "this can't be done with ahk" reply is good. At least I'll know I need to work on a workaround instead of keep trying.

If my question is missing details, just tell me - I'll happily add them.

(I'm sorry for bumping, I just really need it and I couldn't find answers elsewhere)

[Klaus]

hi, zooz,
I don't know about a "built-in reason-why", but in an equal situation I wrote a failure detection on my own.
Look whether a file with the same name already resides on the destination,
look whether there's enough space on the drive, try to store another small, not existing file on the destination, if it fails, you don't have the right and so on.
Hope I could help,
Klaus

[jsmain]

I was really hoping to see a better responce to this myself.

I've been using filecopy to transfer and rename 150+
MB MPEG files from DVD to the HDD, and they do so, unless the file already exists at the destination, and even with an overwrite flag set, it appears to pass right over them. It's easy enough to see, as it takes a few seconds to copy that large a file, and only a moment to move on to the next track.

Personally, I may have to resort to deleting the file if it exists, but IMO, if it is to overwrite, it should be doing so, and I'd like a reason why it's not.
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[Zippo(()]

I checked, and my version of AHK, FileCopy seems to clear the A_LastError variable.

So to stop that, you can call the OS CopyFile thru a DllCall and then check A_LastError to get an error code. You can then look that up on Google and figure out what happened to cause it to fail:

[jsmain]

Thanks! That was much more helpful!


System Error Codes
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Jeff Main

[zooz]

Thanks Zippo,

Looks promising, I'll definitely try.

[jsmain]

Because of Zippo, I was able to determine that I wasn't able to over write because the file was read only. once I changed the attribute, I was able to over write it.

Thanks Zippo!
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Jeff Main

[WillisDave]

Hi

Is there any reason why the ahk filecopy function will not work for jpegs?

thanks

[engunneer]

no. it does not care about filetype
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