Moving a File

[Dave]

On 6 Mar 2007, at 18:57, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Dave wrote:
>> Oh, and BEWARE!!!
>> If you have two files:
>> /FolderA/FolderB/FolderC/FileX.xxx
>> /FolderA/FolderB/FolderC/FileY.xxx
>> rename /FolderA/FolderB/FolderC/FileX.xxx to /FolderA/FolderB/ 
>> FolderC/FileY.xxx
>> You will end up with one file called FileY.xxx! IOW, if the file  
>> exists in the destination path it will quite happily OVERWRITE it!
>
> Brace yourself, because the "url" syntax will do the same thing:
>
>   put myData into url ("file:"&tURL)
>
> If the file already exists, it is overwritten. Hopefully this will  
> save you some frustration.

Thanks, that was my main intention when I posted. However this is  
nearly as bad since this command is not pretending to be a "rename"  
command. At least here it would reasonable to consider that the file  
might be overwritten.

All the Best
Dave