Background Processing

[Daniel0312]

Hi,

What I want to do is pretty straightforward : work on a file in a temporary folder, when done, copy it to a data folder, then delete the temp folder...
Something like this :

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copyto "D:\Data", "R:\TEMP\d_work\TestFile.txt";
delete 0,0,"R:\TEMP\d_work";
$FileName=listfolder("D:\Data");
echo $FileName; 

The result is an empty string: the file isn't copied but the temp foder is gone
The temp folder seems to be deleted before the file is copied.
It was working OK until I enabled Backgroung processing. It seemed a good idea.

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There must be something I misundertand in this background processing thing, can anybody explain?

Thanks.

[highend]

copyto isn't a function, the script doesn't wait for the command to return but instead executes the next following one immediately...

Use
setting "BackgroundFileOps", 0;
before copyto

to turn background processing off and circumvent the problem.

If you don't want to do that you'd need a (following) loop to check if the file is already in its new place and break it to continue...

[Daniel0312]

HI highend,
Thanks for the explanation and the tip.
It works like a charm !