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Snoopstah
Level 7
‎Jan 30, 2008 11:30 PM

Moving files over partitions in installscript

How do I go about moving a folder (and sub folders) from one hard disk to another?

eg: I want to move "C:\MyOrigFolder\" to "D:\MyNewFolder\" ?

This may contain several gig of data so a copy statement is not optimal.
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RobertDickau
Flexera Alumni
‎Jan 31, 2008 03:09 PM

I haven't tried it, but will the InstallScript RenameFile function work for this?
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Snoopstah
Level 7
‎Jan 31, 2008 04:23 PM

Unfortunately the RenameFile didn't like different disk drives.

I have managed to use XCopyFile, but obviously that takes more time to execute and I aslo need to then cleanup the old directory.
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Snoopstah
Level 7
‎Apr 10, 2008 11:20 PM

Hmm. I have since discovered the xCopy is not a viable solution because our clients may have 50 gig worth of data that I need to MOVE not COPY.

There must be a way to go about this other than reading every file into a list and copying/deleting them one by one?

Or is that my only solution?
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