File.changePath not working

[peteoconnell]

Hi, according to the Object Model Viewer in the Extendscript Toolkit, the File class has a method called changePath which I can't get to work. For example, here I am trying to move a file from my desktop to my documents folder.

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var theFile = File("~/Desktop/theTextFile.txt")
theFile.changePath('~/Documents')

Anyone know why this doesn't work?
Pete

[Paul Tuersley]

The changePath function is documented in the Javascript Tools Guide CS4.pdf

Firstly, it looks like the correct usage would be:

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var theFile = File("~/Desktop/theTextFile.txt")
theFile.changePath("~/Documents/theTextFile.txt")

But it appears that this function is only for changing the file path associated with the file object, not for actually moving the file. To move the file, you can do this:

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var theFile = File("~/Desktop/theTextFile.txt");
theFile.copy("~/Documents/theTextFile.txt");
theFile.remove();