On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:08 AM Vince Teachout <[email protected]> wrote:
> Granted, it's a short drive, but....
>
I know the feeling. I can walk from here ;)
> This is making me nuts. I've paraphrased and simplified the problem to
> the gist of it:
>
> My program does COPY FILE (cInputFile) to (cOutputFile). This works
> great. EXCEPT if the output file is on my desktop, then I get the message:
> "Cannot create file c:\users\me\desktop\file.ext."
>
> It doesn't matter that I'm an Admin user, and it doesn't matter if I
> also right-click and run the program as admin.
>
Yeah, that's nuts-making.
Did you perhaps move your Desktop shortcut to another drive? I had a client
issue where their personal folders were mapping to network shares and...
weird things happened.
I did:
StrToFile("This is a test. This is only a test.","testfile.txt")
cInFile = fullpath("testfile.txt")
cOutFile = "C:\Users\tedro\Desktop\testfile.txt")
COPY FILE (cInFile) TO (cOutFile)
and it worked.
Note my username is truncated (8.3!) in the Desktop path. Perhaps that's
what you're running into? (In File explorer, right-click on Desktop,
Properties for the creative renaming)
"A mind is a terrible thing to lose." -- Dan Quayle
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