I have an .ini file on the computer that tells where my Data path is.I need to have an app that will read the ini data path and place the files in that location of the data path in the .iniSome files need to be sent to that data path in the ini and the rest of the files are to be put in the location of the software.
View 1 RepliesI have a backup class it copys every thing but the unmovable files witch in return when i test the dive that i just backed up all files to will not boot up missing win system32 config files??how would i add permission to my code??? or how do i over ride cant copy file because a nother process is useing it?
View 3 RepliesI've got an app which uses a background worker to copy files. It works fine but some files are quite large and it "appears" as though the app isn't doing anything. Is there an alternative to the File.Copy method of copying files so I can report on the progress of individual file copies, like the percentage complete?
View 19 RepliesI've almost finished my database application, and I had an idea to insert a button that creates a copy of the database. However, when I click the button, it destroys all of the data in the file before copying. It's a 2000 .mdb Access file with 500+ rows so far.
Here's the code that handles the backup: Private Sub btnBackup_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnBackup.Click
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Does the IO.File.Copy method preserve file attributes? Especially, if I have a write-protected file, will the copy be write-protected to?
View 1 RepliesAlright this is what im working with. Im Working with vb.net 2003.I have (X) amount txt files in "C:Marble".In each txt files there are 3 lines.I want to read the first line of each txt file and display them in a listbox. [code] Things i need to Find:
-1 How to tell how many files are in a folder
-2 How to create a loop were it reads the first line of each file in that folder
An application that my company uses stores report files with a .dat extension for use with their software. These files can be opened in notepad and the basic report information can be seen as text. I am attempting to write an app that opens and reads data from these .dat files and displays it in a checked listbox. My hangup thus far is that I can't figure out how to read the data from the .dat files since they are not .txt files. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Can i copy files into folders without providing full name of the file? Different files will be distributed into different folder, my files have current date at the end, it also has split before the date. I would like to copy the files name before the split. Here is an example
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I'm trying to return a integer / count of the ammount of files in the directory and sub directories in the 'Windows' folder, I need to be able to do this as fast as possible (no lag) and tell when it's done, hope I explained this right.
View 3 RepliesI wrote a cleanup program to go through some directories and delete files based on if the creation date is older than say 6 months. It works fine with some of the directories I have that contain around a few thousand small files. However, there is one directory (that contains small backup files from another program) that is loaded with over 300,000 files and it locks up on me as soon as I read in the first file in that directory.I am convinced it is the directory has too many files in it to open it. The server that the directory is on is slow. It takes a half hour to open the directory while on the server itself. I know it will take forever to delete the amount of files I want to delete, but I don't understand why it gets stuck and hangs there with no error message.Here is where I get stuck. Listbox1 is the directory I'm attempting to access
For Each selectFile In My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles(ListBox1.Items.Item(Count), FileIO.SearchOption.SearchTopLevelOnly, "*.*")
compFile = Path.GetFileName(selectFile)
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I require some help in saving and reading files in Line by Line format, How would I save to a specific line in the text file, or read a specific line?
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I'm using "My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory(...)" to copy large directories (30-50gb) from one mapped share folder to another. Using "FileInfo.length" to add up all file and subfolder sizes, determines the 'origin directory' size just fine. However, if I use the same method for determining the size of the 'destination directory', mid copy, it returns the full file size, despite the copy not yet being complete.I'm at a loss as to why, as this method works fine in testing, going from a local PC t
Private Function FolderSize(ByVal dir As String) As Long
Dim Size As Long = 0
Dim d As New DirectoryInfo(dir)
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I'm trying to make a file.copy to the program files folder but can't get access to it.This is on windows vista and 7.
View 6 RepliesI have a little vb.net script that will copy a file, set its attributes to Normal, update the file time, and then set back the attributes to match those of the source file.
If IO.File.Exists(Destination) Then IO.File.SetAttributes(Destination, IO.FileAttributes.Normal)
IO.File.Copy(Source, Destination, True)
IO.File.SetAttributes(Destination, IO.FileAttributes.Normal)
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I however I'm encountering a quite strange problem. On some configurations, IO.File.SetLastWriteTimeUtc triggers an UnauthorizedAccess error, although the IO.File.Copy instruction worked very well.
I created a Right-Click Menu option for files. When the user clicks the menu option it will copy all of the file paths to the clipboard.The following function I have will retrieve all of the filepaths to the clipboard. The problem lies in adding the filepaths to the listbox. If I turn single instance application off the result is multiple instance of the application for each filepath. Say for example I selected 2 files and clicked my right-click menu, I wind up with 2 instance of my exe with each file path added to the listbox, 1 in one listbox, the other file path in the second instance listbox.
Public Sub getthepath()
Try
Dim thefilepath As String
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Is there a way to loop through each file path from the clipboard and add them to the listbox through a loop?Several times I have tried different ideas I had that I thought would do it and I got odd results but never a good result.
I'm trying to search files for matches, and depending on what catagory the match is under, do a certain function... Say I have a .txt file that looks like this
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Then I have a form with Button1 and Textbox1. Say I type "Cat" into Textbox1 and press Button1. It would then bring up a MsgBox that says "Match found under Animal catagory". But if I put "Three" in Textbox1, the messagebox would say "Found under Numbers catagory".
how can i either copy/move/rename & delete a file in program files directory? [c ode]i already have the form which grabs the updated file and it save it to temp directory ready for copying, just stuck here as of the access denied.
View 4 RepliesI have VB project and I tried to use PUBLISH feature.It seems to create nicely some kind of setup program, but the setup program does not ask where to copy files (it does not seem to copy filesto target machine "PROGRAM FILES".)Is this setup program somehow different from usual installers?
NOTE: I want that app files are installed to Hard disk( from USB stick source)Is the signing recommended or necessary? My App is pretty simple, its just using access DB + printer api, should I still sign?
I am wanting to get a complete file/folder listing and then copy these files to another folder.
Here is my
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This happens on many folders. How can I get a listing of these folders and also copy these files?
how to copy files while the source files are variable?...I would say may source file size is 1mb and it continue increasing up to certain value let say 15mb.. i want to copy and append each bytes to complete the 15mb. I mean, copying while the source files are completing its size, that should it be. im using vb.net
View 5 Repliesi have 2 problems the first problem is if i have a .txt file how can i extract specific data. the second problem can i create batch files on the fly because of the need for a variable again it may not make sense but shout tyrannically
View 2 RepliesI have a program that uses IO.File.Copy to copy files from point a to point b. Its slow, which is fine because there rather large files. I was wondering if there is way to get an estimate time to copy a particular file(s).
Example: File a will take 1 hour to copy, File B will take 30 minutes to copy. Estimate Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes.
Is there a way in VB to copy certain file types comparable to the commnad line copy command
View 4 RepliesI have a weird behavior when trying to copy a file with System.IO.File.Copy. The file never gets copied. More than that, the call doesn't generate an exeption!
I am using VB.NET, Framework 3.5. I'm trying to copy in C:Temp and I do have the privileges. Or at least I used to...
I wrote an application that copies files from Folder(A) into Folder (B) First it checks if the files exists if yes it will copy them and it will over write the them in fodler (B) and is working great , but if I have a file in Folder(B)that is located in a subfolder the file inFolder (A) will not be copied to the new location.
belwo is the code to copy the files if they exist :[code..]
During the backup we sometimes get an error. IOExxception was unhandled[cod]e...
View 1 RepliesDim FilestoCopy As String
Dim NewCopies As String
FilestoCopy = "C:UsersDocuments*.txt"
NewCopies = "D:NewDocuments"
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I was wondering how to switch this to copy all .txt file from FilestoCopy to NewCopies
I need to make a program the displays the amount of female voters per precinct.The .txt file has 5 fields: first being precinct, 2nd gender, 3rd age, 4th registered, 5th affliation.Here is what I have so far but I don't know how to finish it.
Option Strict On
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
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Reading WAV-files ?
View 3 Repliesif i have .txt file which contains something like
abc, 204, dds
ssd, 1123, sdfb
aasds,1343,asd
and i need the words like
abc
ssd
aasds
before the first comma in my listbox
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Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
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