vbscript FileSystem Objects Moving a File/Folder
Example
Methods Used:
.MoveFile(Source, Dest)
.MoveFolder(Source, Dest)
The following code illustrates the use of MoveFile method to Move a file to a new location. The same thing can be achieved for the folders by using the MoveFolder method.
Code:
Dim objFso, strSourcePath, strDestPath
strSourcePath = "C:\Users\GS\Desktop\Source.txt"
strDestPath = "C:\Users\GS\Desktop\Folder\Dest.txt"
Set objFso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If objFso.FileExists(strSourcePath) then
objFso.MoveFile strSourcePath, strDestPath
End If
Set objFso = Nothing
NOTE: We do not have any method of a filesystem object which allows us to rename a file. However, this can be achieved by MoveFile method by moving the file to the same location with a different name as shown below:
Dim objFso, strSourcePath, strDestPath
strSourcePath = "C:\Users\GS\Desktop\OldName.txt"
strDestPath = "C:\Users\GS\Desktop\NewName.txt" 'Location is same but the name is different
Set objFso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If objFso.FileExists(strSourcePath) then
objFso.MoveFile strSourcePath, strDestPath
End If
Set objFso = Nothing
