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PORenaming a file in as3 AIR - how to do it if you have file's native path in a var?
 

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    <p>The following code is great for renaming a file if you know the file is in applicationStorageDirectory</p> <pre><code>var sourceFile:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory; sourceFile = sourceFile.resolvePath("Kalimba.snd"); var destination:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory; destination = destination.resolvePath("test.snd"); try { sourceFile.moveTo(destination, true); } catch (error:Error) { trace("Error:" + error.message); } </code></pre> <p>How do you set the sourceFile if all you have is the file's native path in a string? Like this:</p> <pre><code>D:\Software\files\testList.db </code></pre> <p>This throws errors:</p> <pre><code>sourceFile = sourceFile.resolvePath("D:\Software\files\testList.db"); </code></pre> <p>The idea is I want to rename a file I had previously loaded into a var. I figured I'd extract the native path to a String var, null the File var (so the OS doesn't tell me it can't be renamed while the file is opened in flash), resolve that nativePath as the sourceFile, and use moveTo to rename the file on the hard drive.</p> <p>Cheers for taking a look.</p> <p>EDIT:</p> <p>I've set up a test AIR app with only the following in it:</p> <pre><code>import flash.events.*; import flash.filesystem.*; var original = File.documentsDirectory; original = original.resolvePath("D:\\Software\\test\\October.db"); var destination:File = File.documentsDirectory; destination = destination.resolvePath("copy.db"); original.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, fileMoveCompleteHandler); original.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, fileMoveIOErrorEventHandler); original.moveToAsync(destination); function fileMoveCompleteHandler(event:Event):void { trace(event.target); // [object File] } function fileMoveIOErrorEventHandler(event:IOErrorEvent):void { trace("I/O Error."); } </code></pre> <p>This fails, as does using D:\Software\test\October.db</p> <p>I guess what I want to know it - how do you do the resolvePath thing if you already know the full path? </p>
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    1. COSo you already have a `File` class instance linked to the file you want to rename? It should be no problem to use this for renaming, a file is not "in use" until you actually open it (for example using a stream).
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    2. COThat's what I thought. However, moveTo fails, although copyTo succeeds.
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    3. COAre you sure that the file is actually locked? Maybe you just don't have write permission for that specific file/folder? also what does the exact code look like where the problem occours? And what error exactly do you receive? For the sake of completeness (not sure whether it's just a copy & paste mistake), in string literals backslashes must be escaped in order to act as backslashes, ie your path should be like `D:\\Software\\files\\testList.db`.
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