Re: Moving a file from A to B fails with incorrect syntax error

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:55:59 -0700
Message-ID:
<17168687-32CE-4B17-8B88-D49806109843@microsoft.com>
This is kind of way out there, but since it's a music file could it be that
there is something in a virus checker or firewall that is keeping you from
moving it. Is it just these .wav files or others as well. If you rename
these files from .wav to .txt do they still refuse to move? There is
something going on somewhere that we're missing (doh :o)

Tom

"Tony" <lazyherbert@homeandresting.com> wrote in message
news:uLi%23Vn51IHA.528@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

Hi Tom,

I have tried all of the suggestions, i.e. copy and delete etc, but the
file will not move.
I have renamed the destination to be a single folder off of the root and
with no spaces. I have rebooted my PC.
I have even renamed the extension from .wav to .tmp but all to no avail.
The .wav files I want to move will not budge, but .txt files in the same
folder with the same attributes and permissions will move to the same
destination folders.
I am the only account on my Vista PC, with full administrative rights BUT
it wont go.

Is it possible that because my app is running as a service that it fails?

If I didnt have other things to do on my project I would have pulled all
of my hair out by now!!!

It seems so simple, and I ma sure it is, but I cant seem to find the
answer.

TIA

Tony
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com> wrote in message
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Is there a chance the .wav file is opened in another application (like
does some application running use it for one of the sounds it produces
and just keep it open)?

Just for the sake of argument, have you tried using CopyFile() and
DeleteFile() individually to see if that works?

One last thing, are you sure that location b doesn't already have a file
with that name? I think you could use the MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING to
write over existing files.

Tom

"Tony" <lazyherbert@homeandresting.com> wrote in message
news:%23ynci541IHA.1772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

My code is posted below, BUT it seems that the issue is with the file
extension because the code will quite happily work with text files in
the same folder, but will not move (or incidentally copy) the files.
When I try I am getting the
following error message
failed with error 123: The filename, directory name, or volume label
syntax is incorrect."

I can manually copy / cut and paste the .wav files

My code snippet -

CString csFile1 = "c:\\location a\\subdir\\subsubdir\\file.wav";
CString csFile2 = "c:\\location b\\subdir\\subsubdir\\file.wav";
if(MoveFileEx(csFile1, csFile2, MOVEFILE_COPY_ALLOWED))
 {
  WriteStringToFile(csFile2 ); //my own function which never gets
called
 }
 else
 {
  TCHAR szBuf[80];
  LPVOID lpMsgBuf;
  DWORD dw = GetLastError();
  LPTSTR lpszFunction = "";

  FormatMessage(
   FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER |
   FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM,
   NULL,
   dw,
   MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT),
   (LPTSTR) &lpMsgBuf,
   0, NULL );

  wsprintf(szBuf,
   "%s failed with error %d: %s",
   lpszFunction, dw, lpMsgBuf);

  WriteStringToFile(szBuf);

  LocalFree(lpMsgBuf);

 }
"David Wilkinson" <no-reply@effisols.com> wrote in message
news:upVNtc41IHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

Tony wrote:

Hi,

I am moving a file from c:\location a\subdir\subsubdir\file.wav to
c:\location b\subdir\subsubdir\file.wav

but the error message i get is

"failed with error 123: The filename, directory name, or volume label
syntax is incorrect."

I am running on a vista home premium machine, using visual studio 6 if
that helps.


Tony:

Shouldn't you be showing us some code?

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

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