Renaming Files

[JSexton]

I need to copy files in a source directory (i.e. 1.tif, 2.tif, etc.) and rename them to a destination directory (i.e. 199912215001.001, 199912215001.002, etc). Think I have to use the CopyFile method but I'm chasing my tale can anyone help?

Thanks

[Al Smith]

Hi,
Try :
FileCopy "Source File", "Destination File"
Al.

[X_Darknight_X]

Try doing this:

OldFile = "C:\Location\1.tiff"
NewFile = "C:\Location\199912215001.001.tiff"

Name OldFile As NewFile

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[HeSaidJoe]

'if you are copying lots and lots of files try this out
'I use this to back up folders so I haven't tried to
'rename anything doing this...you can try that.
'look for the =================to see where you should try it.
'Wayne


'bas module code for copying a file from
'one directory to another
'in this case from c:\yourFolder to a:\yourFolder
'CAUTION....WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING FILES WITHOUT PROMPT

Option Explicit
'
Declare Function CreateDirectory Lib "kernel32" Alias "CreateDirectoryA" _
(ByVal lpPathName As String, _
lpSecurityAttributes As SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES) As Long

Declare Function CopyFile Lib "kernel32" Alias "CopyFileA" _
(ByVal lpExistingFileName As String, _
ByVal lpNewFileName As String, _
ByVal bFailIfExists As Long) As Long

Declare Function FindFirstFile Lib "kernel32" Alias "FindFirstFileA" _
(ByVal lpFileName As String, _
lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Long

Declare Function FindNextFile Lib "kernel32" Alias "FindNextFileA" _
(ByVal hFindFile As Long, _
lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Long

Declare Function FindClose Lib "kernel32" _
(ByVal hFindFile As Long) As Long
'
Public Const INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE = -1
Public Const MAX_PATH = 260

Type FILETIME
dwLowDateTime As Long
dwHighDateTime As Long
End Type

Type WIN32_FIND_DATA
dwFileAttributes As Long
ftCreationTime As FILETIME
ftLastAccessTime As FILETIME
ftLastWriteTime As FILETIME
nFileSizeHigh As Long
nFileSizeLow As Long
dwReserved0 As Long
dwReserved1 As Long
cFileName As String * MAX_PATH
cAlternate As String * 14
End Type

Type SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
nLength As Long
lpSecurityDescriptor As Long
bInheritHandle As Long
End Type

Public Function rgbCopyFiles(sSourcePath As String, _
sDestination As String, _
sFiles As String) As Long

Dim WFD As WIN32_FIND_DATA
Dim SA As SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES

Dim r As Long
Dim hFile As Long
Dim bNext As Long
Dim copied As Long
Dim currFile As String

'Create the target directory if it doesn't exist
Call CreateDirectory(sDestination, SA)

'Start searching for files in the Target directory.
hFile = FindFirstFile(sSourcePath & sFiles, WFD)

If (hFile = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) Then

'nothing to do, so bail out
MsgBox "No " & sFiles & " files found."
Exit Function

End If

'Copy each file to the new directory
If hFile Then

Do

'trim trailing nulls, leaving one to terminate the string
currFile = Left$(WFD.cFileName, InStr(WFD.cFileName, Chr$(0)))

'==========================================================================
'haven't tried this part but I think it should work
currFile = Name currFile As "c:\YourOldFolder\YourNewFolder\"
'==========================================================================

'copy the file to the destination directory & increment the count
Call CopyFile(sSourcePath & currFile, sDestination & currFile, False)
copied = copied + 1

'find the next file matching the initial file spec
bNext = FindNextFile(hFile, WFD)

Loop Until bNext = 0

End If

'Close the search handle
Call FindClose(hFile)

'and return the number of files copied
rgbCopyFiles = copied

End Function

'>>>> CODE FOR FORM <<<<

Dim sSourcePath As String
Dim sDestination As String
Dim sFiles As String
Dim numCopied As Long

'set the appropriate initializing values
sSourcePath = "c:\YourOLdFolder\"
sDestination = "c:\YourNewFolder\"
sFiles = "*.*"

'perform the copy and return the copied file count; end application
numCopied = rgbCopyFiles(sSourcePath, sDestination, sFiles)

MsgBox numCopied & " files copied to " & sDestination


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