Sometimes folder renaming code works, sometimes it doesn't ?

[gil]

Hello All,

Sometimes folder renaming code works, sometimes it doesn't. I cannot seem to figure out what changes. It'll work for 5 minutes, then not work.



Dim OldName, NewName

OldName = "C:\Patients": NewName = "c:\Patie333"

Name OldName As NewName



I'm losing it. Any ideas what I might be missing?

TIA,

Gil

 

[Jonathan West]

Is there an open file in the folder?


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Hello All,
Sometimes folder renaming code works, sometimes it doesn't. I cannot seem
to figure out what changes. It'll work for 5 minutes, then not work.

Dim OldName, NewName
OldName = "C:\Patients": NewName = "c:\Patie333"
Name OldName As NewName

I'm losing it. Any ideas what I might be missing?
TIA,
Gil

 

[gil]

Hi Jonathan,
Nope. No file open in the folder.

Gil

 

[Jonathan West]

Hi Jonathan,
Nope. No file open in the folder.

OK, does it always seem to work when you step through the code by pressing
F8?

 

[gil]

Well, Jonathan . it might be that there was a file in the folder after all . sort of. It just hadn't been named yet. The code was
springing from an install.dot file I had made. And it depended on whether install.dot was activated w/o another file being open in
a different folder or not.



It seems fixed by adding the first line below:



ChangeFileOpenDirectory "C:\TSMRunzipTemp"

Dim OldName, NewName

OldName = "C:\Patients": NewName = "c:\Patie333"

Name OldName As NewName



Install.dot was at step one of starting a new document, which could have been in one of several folders. Sometimes it was going to
be in the folder whose name I was changing.



Thank you for your assistance. I've not been in the habit of using F8 to step through. I'll give it a try.



Gil

Cheers . Gil

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