You can only create one folder at a time. You can not create nested folders in one go.
So you need to do like this put tDF & "/media/audio/nature/2017/" into tFolder create folder tFolder put “birds” after tFolder create folder tFolder Regards Tore > > 7. aug. 2017 kl. 19:57 skrev Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > Attempts to create a subfolder below a folder that does not exists fail. > > Where folder "nature" exists but folder "2017" does not, attempt to create > folder "birds" below 2017 fail. > > put specialFolderPath["Documents"] into tDF > > # "/media/audio/nature" #these folders exist > # /2017/birds" # does not, yet. > > put tDF & "/media/audio/nature/2017/birds" into tFolder > > create folder tFolder > put the result > > "can't create that directory" > > OK so… if I remove the "/2017" from my test path string and run it… we get > the folder created as expected, where the new folder is a subfolder of an > already existing folder. > > Ok so this all makes perfect sense, but before I go looping thru the path to > check for existence of each folder in the hierarchy and creating it if I does > not exist. I was wondering > > 1) am I missing something or is this just expected behavior > > and > > 2) Does it make sense to ask for an enhancement request for the engine to > recursively create folders for a path where itemdel "/" and items -1,-2,-3 > (sub folders) do not exist? > > on unix > > cp --parents 'a/b/c' 'audio/nature' > > # will do this job… and you get > > audio/nature/a/b/c > > on disk > > so I suppose one could resort to shell but this is not available on mobile. > Hence the engine enhancement request. > > meanwhile back to writing a repeat loop to check on sub folder and create on > the fly. From all I'm seeing the CPUs of all phones of all grades hardly > have an issue, bencemark wise with this kind of processing… all the "trouble" > is at the rendering layer. From beta test reports where some rather snakey > code is executed equally fast on all phones, but not anything having to do > with pixels…e.g. fetch, process and assemble data to push to 100 sub-groups > of a big scrolling group… wink of an eye… actually build and layout the > sub-groups in the UI and display: slow as molasses on android. > > BR > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
