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moving files to another project did not work correctly

Peter Ronning 7 years ago in General updated by dbartlett 7 years ago 1

I tried to copy a bunch of files from one project to another project using File - Utilities - Manage - Copy - Another Project.


This is what happened (folder names changed for client confidentiality):


I wanted to copy files from, let's say, Project Y to Project X. Here is what I started with:


C:\My_Projects\Project_Y\all_au_diff-dmns_rw_2009.STR

C:\My_Projects\Project_Y\all_au_geo_orig_num_2009.STR

C:\My_Projects\Project_Y\all_au_rw_2009.STR

C:\My_Projects\Project_Y\Ass17a.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_Y\assays_2009.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_Y\Col17a.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_Y\collars_2009.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_Y\bm_mm.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_Y\Sur17a.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_Y\surveys_2009.DAT


Here is what I expected to end up with:


C:\My_Projects\Project_X\all_au_diff-dmns_rw_2009.STR

C:\My_Projects\Project_X\all_au_geo_orig_num_2009.STR

C:\My_Projects\Project_X\all_au_rw_2009.STR

C:\My_Projects\Project_X\Ass17a.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_X\assays_2009.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_X\Col17a.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_X\collars_2009.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_X\bm_mm.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_X\Sur17a.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_X\surveys_2009.DAT


And here is what I did end up with:


C:\My_Projects\Project_Xall_au_diff-dmns_rw_2009.STR

C:\My_Projects\Project_Xall_au_geo_orig_num_2009.STR

C:\My_Projects\Project_Xall_au_rw_2009.STR

C:\My_Projects\Project_XAss17a.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_Xassays_2009.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_XCol17a.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_Xcollars_2009.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_Xbm_mm.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_XSur17a.DAT

C:\My_Projects\Project_Xsurveys_2009.DAT

So, what the copy routine did was prepend the name of the project folder to the file name, but without the "\", and put the resulting file in the root folder. That's hardly useful.

Good day Peter


There does seem to be an issue with this function. I will look into it and get it resolved.


Thanks for your feedback.


Regards

David