"FileMoveDir" with Admin-Rights

[Peter2]

I use "FileMoveDir" to rename a folder. Sometimes I got an error message, and as I tried to rename it with Explorer, I got the wellknown message

"You need Admin-Rights to rename this folder. Do you want to continue?
Continue / Skip / Cancel"

Continue did the job, without asking for username and password.

How to "FileMoveDir" with Admin-Rights" in AHK?
Is is possible to change: "If first try creates an error, then try with Admin-Rights"?

Thanks.

[lexikos]

No. "Retrying with admin rights" would require launching a new process with admin rights and then retrying. AutoHotkey can't detect the dialog, and doesn't even know which files are being copied. When the source and destination are on the same volume, the move is handled by a single call to SHFileOperation(&FileOp).

If you run the script as admin, the first try will be "with admin rights".

If it's even possible that FileMoveDir is causing that dialog, I suppose that it is a bug in Windows (or its documentation).

FOF_NO_UI
Windows Vista. Perform the operation silently, presenting no UI to the user. This is equivalent to FOF_SILENT | FOF_NOCONFIRMATION | FOF_NOERRORUI | FOF_NOCONFIRMMKDIR.
Source: SHFILEOPSTRUCT structure (Windows)

AutoHotkey doesn't use the FOF_NO_UI constant, but it uses flags which combine to exactly the same value.

[Peter2]

Thanks lexikos

I "solved" it with a simple message to the user.

[CodeKiller]

Why don't you use Run command ? So that the script will run normaly and only this command

Code: Select all

RunAs Administrator
Run %command%
RunAs

[Peter2]

Why don't you use Run command ? ...[/code]

This is what I thought too, but I didn't try it because I understood the help-file in that way that a password is obligatory.
But I should try ...

(BTW: I either understand the background of the Windows behaviour that
- sometimes it asks only "Continue as Admn?" and
- sometimes it asks for Admin-loginname and admin-password)