RenameDirectory()

[PB Fanatic]

I can't believe this command doesn't exist after all these years!

And how do we do it in the meantime? A search for "rename directory" comes up with 0 relevant results.

[Marc56us]

And how do we do it in the meantime? A search for "rename directory" comes up with 0 relevant results.

Hello,

Use the keyword folder, instead of directory for search

http://www.purebasic.com/documentation/ ... efile.html

[...]This function can also be used to rename/move directories.[...]

[PB Fanatic]

Use the keyword folder, instead of directory

What the? We have CreateDirectory, CopyDirectory, DeleteDirectory... but not RenameDirectory. So searching for "directory" is therefore a totally logical thing to do, as opposed to searching for "folder". Thanks for pointing it out, though.

[Little John]

What the? We have CreateDirectory, CopyDirectory, DeleteDirectory... but not RenameDirectory. So searching for "directory" is therefore a totally logical thing to do

I agree.
So open the English help file, click at the "Search" tab, and then enter

rename directory

As result, the topic titled RenameFile() will be listed, which contains the following sentence:

This function can also be used to rename/move directories.

Voilà!

[PB Fanatic]

It would be better just to have a new command called RenameDirectory() that works.

[Bisonte]

make it by your own :

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Procedure RenameDirectory(OldName.s, NewName.s)
  ProcedureReturn RenameFile(OldName, NewName)
EndProcedure

or with a macro....

[PB Fanatic]

A procedure or macro that wraps RenameFile() simply doesn't work:

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Macro RenameDirectory(old,new)
  RenameFile(old,new)
EndMacro

old$=GetTemporaryDirectory()+"old"

Debug CreateDirectory(old$)       ; 1 - Okay
Debug RenameDirectory(old$,"new") ; 0 - Fails

[Shardik]

A procedure or macro that wraps RenameFile() simply doesn't work

It works quite fine when doing it right...

You have to specify the complete path to your renamed directory. On my old Windows XP SP3 even your example works fine but probably not as expected by you: it renamed the directory "old" and moved it to C:\new. If you are not allowed to write to the C:\ root directory you will obtain a return code of 0.

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Macro RenameDirectory(old,new)
  RenameFile(old,new)
EndMacro

old$=GetTemporaryDirectory()+"old"

Debug CreateDirectory(old$)       ; 1 - Okay
Debug RenameDirectory(old$,GetTemporaryDirectory()+"new") ; 1 - Okay

[PB Fanatic]

Oops!

[Little John]

A procedure or macro that wraps RenameFile() simply doesn't work:

Small addition to Shardik's post:
You have always to use proper names, regardless whether you use RenameFile() directly, or whether you wrap it in a macro.
So any problem with a path or file/directory name that you encounter in this context, has nothing got to do with the macro itself.