Hey PA.com
I have read in the PAL menu that wildcards are not YET supported for the [FilesMove]. I am wondering if anyone would be able to shed some light as to when wildcards will be supported?
Many thanks
Shane Thompson
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What are you trying to emulate by using a wild card? Are you trying to move all files say that end in a certain file type or what?
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I have a 3D desktop application that has the ability to create stickynotes. These are put on the desktop as text files, that are called stickynote(numbers).txt. The numbers appear completely random. I would like to be able to copy these files between computers.
Shane Thompson
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do you have the option to choose the folder they save to? If so then you could do a directory move instead of a file move?
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I had had it in my plans for 2.2-2.3, future with no current plans. However, as you're wanting it (making two people wanting it), I've put it forwards to 2.1-2.2. I'll see when I get to it. (As usual with such things, it'll come when it's ready.)
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Many thanks Chris!
Shane Thompson
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One extremely bad issue with getting PAL to deal with wild-cards (on Windows XP anyway), is the fact that windows doesn't see the difference between 'anyfile*.ini' and 'anyfile*.ini-backupByAppID'. Oddly enough, it does when the '-' (minus) would be a '.' (dot). This counts for FindFirst/Next and for CopyFiles . But doesn't happen when using '?' as a wild-card.
So there is a choice, or PAL needs a complicated script to deal with the wild-cards, or change the back-up extension to use the dot instead of the minus character. Hmm...
Formerly Gringoloco
Windows XP Pro sp3 x32
What that looks like to me is a side-effect of Windows using 8.3 filenames in addition to long filenames. Therefore anyfile*.ini matches the short filenames of the backup files (whose extensions are merely .ini thanks to the 8.3 limitation).
See, everyone complains when MS breaks backward compatibility (main reason Vista was such a failure if you ask me), but in many cases, trying to retain compatibility version after version causes just as many headaches.
...and let me know if it's working as what you where looking for!
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It's certainly not the most perfect solution, but will get you what you need.
Formerly Gringoloco
Windows XP Pro sp3 x32