completely silent file copy

[nzer]

Hi,

I'm making a backup program and it will be copying over the same file each day so i want to get rid of the "Folder already exsists..overwrite?" prompts

I'm using this as my code

Private Declare Function SHFileOperation _
    Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "SHFileOperationA" _
    (lpFileOp As SHFILEOPSTRUCT) As Long

Private Type SHFILEOPSTRUCT
   hwnd        As Long
   wFunc       As Long
   pFrom       As String
   pTo         As String
   fFlags      As Integer
   fAborted    As Boolean
   hNameMaps   As Long
   sProgress   As String
 End Type

Private Const FO_MOVE = &H1
Private Const FO_COPY = &H2
Private Const FO_DELETE = &H3
Private Const FO_RENAME = &H4
Private Const FOF_SILENT = &H4

and the actual copy bit

Dim SHF As SHFILEOPSTRUCT
        Dim lret As Long
        ArrayCount = 1
        Do While ArrayCount <= ArrayLimit
        
        SHF.wFunc = FO_COPY
        SHF.hwnd = Me.hwnd
        SHF.pFrom = Backup(ArrayCount)
        SHF.pTo = SaveLocation
        SHF.fFlags = FOF_SILENT

        lret = SHFileOperation(SHF)
        ArrayCount = ArrayCount + 1
        Loop

now i thought with the flags set to FOF_SILENT it would not prompt or anything?

Thanks in advance for help!

[MidgetsBro]

Why can't you just use the FileCopy function built into VB?

FileCopy "C:\test", "D:\test"

[Bruce Fox]

Can u trap the Error by using:
On Error Resume Next

[mendhak]

You can use the filecopy command instead.

do you HAVE to use the method you described?

[mendhak]

Originally posted by MidgetsBro
Why can't you just use the FileCopy function built into VB?

FileCopy "C:\test", "D:\test"

AAAAARGH!!!!

[MidgetsBro]

Originally posted by mendhak


AAAAARGH!!!!

LOL! Quick Draw McJew over here

[Bruce Fox]

I think the problem is eliminating the win Dialogs....

[MidgetsBro]

Do the Windows dialogs popup when you use FileCopy?
-------------------
I just tried it and I didn't get a copy dialg when I used:

FileCopy "C:\snt2.jpg", "C:\cheap.jpg"

[Bruce Fox]

No.... (just tested it)

[nzer]

yes and using the API

[Bruce Fox]

However, u get a 'permission' denied when coping from loc to same loc.

ie.

Private Sub Form_Load()
FileCopy "C:\test.txt", "C:\test.txt"
End Sub

[MidgetsBro]

Why in the world would you want to copy the same file to the same place? That makes no logical sense.

[nzer]

and yes I want to use that method..

using On Error Resume Next will kill all my error handling won't it?

[nzer]

Why in the world would you want to copy the same file to the same place? That makes no logical sense.

so i have the latest versions of the files all the time, its the easiest way of doing it

[MidgetsBro]

Yes, it will kill all error handling in that sub. You can have it check for specific error numbers though, instead On Error Resume Next, you could have

Private Sub Stuff()
On Error Go To EL
'your stuff here
Exit Sub
EL:
If Err.Number = 9485 Then 'the number of error you want to trap
    Resume Next
End If
End Sub

[MidgetsBro]

Originally posted by nzer


so i have the latest versions of the files all the time, its the easiest way of doing it

But if you copy the same file to the same place, you aren't updating anything. He was saying copy the same file over itself. Think of it this way. Try to take a cup, and put it over itself... see what I'm getting at? Maybe if you copied from like C:\CompileFolder to C:\Program Folder then it would work.

[nzer]

On Error Resume Next

doesn't get rid of the window that pops up complaining the folder exsists.

heh can it be done ?

[Bruce Fox]

Alternatively, can u open the file, make any changes, then save it back out?

[MidgetsBro]

But what I am saying, if you copy a file called C:\file.dat to C:\file.dat, you are copying the same thing to the same place. You did not do anything to update the file, so it is like cloning the file, yet you aren't because you can't put something in the same place that it already is without moving the old file first, but then you would have a copy error because the source would be gone. It's like a paradox sort of thing, it's late, and I only had an hour and 45 min of sleep, so either I'm not thinking straight, or I'm not explaining it right.

[Bruce Fox]

Valid point MidgetsBro

[nzer]

heh no you are thinking correctly!

but SAY my program is scheduled to backup every night at 1.00 am.. say the user hasn't changed any files but my backup program still runs, i still want it to be able to copy files (even if they are the same) without it stopping with a question asking if i can overwrite them .. understand?

and it isn't copying like C:\file.file to C:\ file.file it would be like C:\Accounts to //Server/Backup/Accounts

[Bruce Fox]

Now I'm completely lost

Anyway... This didn't give me ANY errors (although the file existed)

Private Sub Form_Load()
    FileCopy "C:\test.txt", "C:\New\test.txt"
End Sub

[Vanguard-MnC]

hey midgetsbro! did you make the haztek site?

[mendhak]

Originally posted by nzer
heh no you are thinking correctly!

but SAY my program is scheduled to backup every night at 1.00 am.. say the user hasn't changed any files but my backup program still runs, i still want it to be able to copy files (even if they are the same) without it stopping with a question asking if i can overwrite them .. understand?

and it isn't copying like C:\file.file to C:\ file.file it would be like C:\Accounts to //Server/Backup/Accounts

I'm lost too.

But in THIS case you won't get an error.

[nzer]

okay maybe i'm crazy lol
gimme 10 mins to try FileCopy

[nzer]

FileCopy isnt' letting me copy the whole directory

i'm using

Do While ArrayCount <= ArrayLimit
    FileCopy Backup(ArrayCount), SaveLocation
    ArrayCount = ArrayCount + 1
Loop

where Backup(1) for example may = E:\Comp
and SaveLocation could = C:\Temp

[nzer]

I think whats causing the trouble is that i'm copying whole DIRS and not just individual files.. SO now you can see why I might want to copy the same directory over the same directory in a different place (in case the files inside are different)... so really my problem is when i try and copy it trys to create the directory and since its there it asks if its okay to overwrite... so how do i stop that popping up

make sense now? (lol this is getting funny)

[Lord_Rat]

You know that you have RENAME and SILENT as both &H4 right?

I think this may be the source of your errors.

Should it be &H5 or even &H6?

[nzer]

You know that you have RENAME and SILENT as both &H4 right?

hmm just noticed that.. but i looked in the API viewer thing and it says

Public Const FOF_SILENT = &H4 ' don't create progress/report


and

Public Const FO_RENAME = &H4

.. argggg....

[nzer]

FOF_NOCONFIRMATION

does the trick :-)

thanks for all the input

[MidgetsBro]

Originally posted by Vanguard-MnC
hey midgetsbro! did you make the haztek site?

Yes

[nishantp]

BTW guys, the CopyFile API is very simple to use, and it give you a few more options.

Anyone know if its any faster?

[Vanguard-MnC]

this post still exists???? p.s. i dont know anything about api so dont ask me

[DovyWeiss]

Though your new Const is fine, without that, I would have said: why can't you use use the DOS copy command? it has a "/y" switch to stop over-write-confirm.

'use any method to find the windows \command directory, API is useful for this
Shell windowsCommandDir & "\copy.exe C:\myDir\*.* _
  C:\Backup\ /y", vbHide

Then again, i'm not sure, maybe you'd have to map the net drive! (because of DOS)