Re: Moving a folder

2011-07-21 Thread Roger Eller
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Never done it, but I imagine you could shell out to check the permissions > of where you are moving to. I don't know if there is a shell command to > check effective permissions of the current user. If there are, do that. > Barring that, a saf

Re: Moving a folder

2011-07-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
Never done it, but I imagine you could shell out to check the permissions of where you are moving to. I don't know if there is a shell command to check effective permissions of the current user. If there are, do that. Barring that, a safer way would be to copy the files, check to make sure there

Moving a folder

2011-07-21 Thread Chip Thomas
What's the best way to move a folder (with all contents) on a user's system? rename folder tOldFolder to tNewFolder revMoveFolder tOldFolder, tNewFolder or using a shell command Concerned about potential permissions issue that would prevent a proper move. What's the best way around that?