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Overwrite files - 6/24/2008 10:08:55 AM

cuzzon

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Hi everyone,

Firstly, vbscript may as well be Japanese to me so I will need to be spoon feed with your replies/help.

My situation is this.
I would like to copy files within a folder on a server to a specific folder on all desktops and to automatically overwrite if the files already exist.

I have found a working example of vbscript that does the job, but there is no overwrite command. I have searched and searched and I cannot figure out how to do it.
Please can someone post an example script of what I'm trying to achieve?

Also, once I manage to get the above working I was wondering how to have the script check OS versions or folder locations?
I'll explain, most of the desktops are Vista but there are some XP machines and the path to the folder I wish to copy files into is different on each OS.

I'd like the script to try and look for the Vista location and then if it doesn't find it, to automatically find the XP location and copy the files with overwrite.

Hopefully this makes sense to everyone. It seems very complicated to me but hopefully not.

Thanks!

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RE: Overwrite files - 6/24/2008 7:05:44 PM

ginolard

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Well, we're not here to write scripts for you but we can point you in the right direction.

File operations are done using the FileSystemObject. You will be wanting to use the CopyFile method. It has an optional parameter (true/false) to specify whether the file should be overwritten or not.

To check OS Versions, you can use WMI. That can also tell you the Windows folder location

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