Folder copying question? 2

[krappleby025]

I have a folder on one of my harddrives

e:/Group/TTL

now, i need to make an exact copy of the TTL folder and ALL contents,
But rename the folder to for example BRF...

so i would end up with

e:/Group/TTL
and
e:/Group/BRF

I am not an experienced programmer, and would appreciate some help...

Also inside the folder their is a txt file

e:/Group/TTL/includes/config.txt

i need to open this to edit it and then save it again

thanks

any help would be appreciated, even a link to get this information so that i can work on it..
Thank you

 

[GabeC]

Here are some links to code that should do the trick for you.


Folder Copy

http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/vbscript/quickref/folder_copy.html

File Copy

http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/vbscript/quickref/file_copy.html

Update text file

http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=6097&lngWId=4

Hope this helps,

Thanks,

Gabe

 

[krappleby025]

Thanks for your info.. Do you now have a link, for the following....

Delete a text file
and to create a text file
and add information to it

or

just to change the info... here is what is in the text file

<%
Memberstable = &quot;TTLMembers&quot;
TransactionTable = &quot;TTLTransactions&quot;
AdminLogin = &quot;*******&quot;
AdminPassword = &quot;*********&quot;
Group = &quot;TTL&quot;
%>

i do not mind redoing the text file completely adding new lines, after deleting previous...

thanks

 

[Tarwn]

You could open the file with overwrite flag set, this will destroy the contents of any like named file and allow you to write to it from scratch:

set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set file = fs.CreateTextFile("E:/Group/TTl/mytextfile.txt", true, false)

Then just use the file.write or file.writeline methods to write text back to it and then close the file.

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[GabeC]

The link to the code for planet-source-safe show how to create a file and add text to it.

If you look at the code in the file copy url, use the filesys.deletefile method.

Thanks,

Gabe

 

[krappleby025]

Thanks all this is really helping.. i have managed to solve the folder copy problem, and am working on the text file... i have this

Groupid = &quot;testfolder&quot; ' (ps. these are just
Adminpass = &quot;testing123&quot; ' (to enable me to set up the file
set fs = CreateObject(&quot;Scripting.FileSystemObject&quot
set file = fs.CreateTextFile(&quot;E:/GroupMLM/&quot; & Groupid & &quot;/config.txt&quot;, true, false)
file.writeline(&quot;Memberstable = &quot;&quot; & Groupid & &quot;Members&quot;&quot
file.writeline(&quot;TransactionTable = &quot;&quot; & Groupid & &quot;Transactions&quot;&quot
file.writeline(&quot;AdminLogin = &quot;&quot;admin&quot;&quot
file.writeline(&quot;Adminpassword = &quot;&quot; & adminpass & &quot;&quot;&quot
file.writeline(&quot;Group = &quot;&quot; & Groupid & &quot;&quot;&quot
file.close
set file = nothing

it is causing an error, what is wrong with it....any ideas

displaying page cannot be displayed... Error on the page

 

[krappleby025]

i just noticed, lol.... I am using (& q u o t and not &quot; some times its just placed them as &quot;

 

[krappleby025]

Sorry,


OK I have managed to solve that last problem
it was due to their being to many &quot; in one of the lines HOWEVER

when i have checked the txt file.. it looks like this


Memberstable = &quot;whatever&quot;

HOWEVER Where their should actually be a &quot; their is only a & quot;

 

[Tarwn]

Not sure what your referencing, the problem i see up above (that you may have already solved) is:
file.writeline(&quot;Memberstable = &quot;&quot;&quot; & Groupid & &quot;Members&quot;&quot;&quot;)
file.writeline(&quot;TransactionTable = &quot;&quot;&quot; & Groupid & &quot;Transactions&quot;&quot;&quot;)
file.writeline(&quot;AdminLogin = &quot;&quot;admin&quot;&quot;&quot;)
file.writeline(&quot;Adminpassword = &quot;&quot;&quot; & adminpass & &quot;&quot;&quot
file.writeline(&quot;Group = &quot;&quot;&quot; & Groupid & &quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;)

That should solve any problems with the string concatenations, I think I got them all but you may want to look them back over to be sure
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[krappleby025]

thanks, however, you missed my point....

where you have highlighted the &quot; above, you should have highlighted the second on each three

However

The problem is... This is a html site, and translates & quot; to &quot; the second &quot; in every three, is printed on the text file as & quot; and not as &quot; like i need

now do you get my meaning.. the text file looks like

tablemembers = & quot;ttlmembers& qout;
tabletransactions = & quot;ttltransaction& qout;

etc
etc

any ideas how i can do this, it should look like

tablemembers = &quot;ttlmembers&quot;
tabletransactions = &quot;ttltransaction&quot;

thanks

 

[Tarwn]

Right the double double quotes in ASP are the escape character for quotes, therefore if you have a string named myString and you assigne it the value:
myString = &quot;&quot;&quot;ttlmembers&quot;&quot;&quot;
Then the value that would get written if you write it to the screen is: &quot;ttlmembers&quot;
This is the same as saving it to the file.
The first and last quote are to declare the string, the inside pairs resolve to a single set of quotes that are part of the string.

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[krappleby025]

ok,

her is the script i am using

file.writeline(&quot;<%&quot
file.writeline(&quot;Memberstable = &quot;&quot; & Groupid & &quot;Members&quot;&quot
file.writeline(&quot;TransactionTable = &quot;&quot; & Groupid & &quot;Transactions&quot;&quot
file.writeline(&quot;AdminLogin = &quot;&quot;admin&quot;&quot
file.writeline(&quot;Adminpassword = &quot;&quot; & adminpass & &quot;&quot
file.writeline(&quot;Group = &quot;&quot; & Groupid & &quot;&quot
file.writeline(&quot;%>&quot
file.close

what is wrong with it... It needs to display

<%
Memberstable = &quot;ttlmembers&quot;
transactiontable = &quot;ttltransactions&quot;
adminlogin = &quot;*****&quot;
adminpassword = &quot;********&quot;
group = &quot;ttl&quot;
%>

But it doesnt

HELPPPPPP???