Resolved VFP cannot copy files to Windows Special Folders

Hello,
Who knows how to use VFP to copy a file to a Windows Special Folder?
For example:
COPY FILE C:\IMAGE1.JPG TO C:\IMAGE2.JPG (it works)
COPY FILE C:\IMAGE1.JPG TO C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\IMAGE2.JPG (it desn't work)
COPY FILE( "C:\IMAGE1.JPG ") TO C:\IMAGE2.JPG (it works)
COPY FILE( "C:\IMAGE1.JPG ") TO C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\IMAGE2.JPG (it desn't work)

bob15

 

There is nothing magical about Windows Special folders. If you have read/write access, you can do whatever you want to do with them. It seems the user who is running the program does not have read/write access to C:\Documents and Settings folder. The proper way would be to copy the files to C:\Documents and Settings/user_name folder, where user_name is the name of the user who is logged in.

 

Thank you for your opinion.
Bit it seems not a good idea to solve this problem.

 

Sorry, read C:\Documents and Settings\user_name instead of C:\Documents and Settings/user_name. The last slash is in Linux notation & not as per Windows.

 

bob15, the surest way to be able to run program for any user is to assume nothing about that user.

You don't know before hand his name,user type etc. Its better either to create directories which your program is going to use & assign proper access rights for the users or use Windows variables to access the common directories like temp etc.

Never ever assume that your user would be running in Administrator mode with read/write access to all the directories if you are at all going to use NTFS partitions.

 

I don't understand what is VFP's "correct access"

I have tried following command:

targetdir=getdir()
? targetdir
C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\OWNER\MY DOCUMENTS\MY PICTURES\
copy file c:\image1.jpg to &targetdir

and I got VFP error message: Command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword.

 

Yes. MS Visual FoxPro.

 

VFP is correct

Copy command expects a filename as target & not a directory [refer to VFP help where the syntax is COPY FILE FileName1 TO FileName2.] Plus your directory folder contains spaces which complicate the matter further.

Try this :

targetdir=getdir()
targetdir = targetdir + "image1.jpg " && Add the target file name
targetdir = "' " + targetdir + "' " && Add ' so that the complete path is treated as one string
copy file c:\image1.jpg to &targetdir

It should work now.

 

Thanks a lot! It works by adding "' ".