Rename leaves original file

[obfusc88]

I have tried to rename a file, but the original file still remains in the folder.
Using Macro Scheduler 11.1.20 on XPPro-SP3
Here is a simple sample......

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Month>mm
Day>dd
Year>yyyy
Let>Today=%yyyy%%mm%%dd%

Let>SourceFolder=N:\Data\Db
Let>FileName=EXPORTS
Let>FileExt=ASC
Let>FullFileName=%FileName%.%FileExt%

ChangeDirectory>%SourceFolder%

RenameFile>%FullFileName%,%FileName%_%Today%.%FileExt

I know I can add more lines and delete the original file if both exist, but this seems unnecessary. Gets more complex if more than one file is involved.

This looks similar to this posting: http://www.mjtnet.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... renamefile

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I just tried the MoveFile and that worked OK. This seems like a bug and the HELP file should make a note to use MoveFile until this is corrected.

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Let>MF_RENAME=1
MoveFile>%SourceFolder%\%FullFileName%,%SourceFolder%\%FileName%_%Today%.%FileExt%

[sarver311]

This seems to work fine in Windows 7 but the bug definitely appears under Windows XP even under MS 12.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Odd. This command simply calls the SHFileOperation API call with the flag in the SHFILEOPTSTRUCT set to FO_RENAME. So we're really just passing the command on to the operating system to fulfil.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... s.85).aspx