Author Topic: MOVE does not work with paths containing spaces  (Read 1025 times)

Offline Argent77

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MOVE does not work with paths containing spaces
« on: March 10, 2018, 04:43:29 PM »
I tried to rename a file in the user directory of an EE game with the MOVE action, but WeiDU failed with an error.

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// The code:
MOVE ~%USER_DIRECTORY%/some_large_file.dat~ ~%USER_DIRECTORY%/some_large_file.backup~

// The error message:
ERROR: Failure("MOVE [C:\\Users\\user\\Documents\\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition/some_large_file.dat] [C:\\Users\\user\\Documents\\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition/some_large_file.backup]: source and destination can't contain spaces")

Is there a (platform-independent) way to work around this issue?

Offline Wisp

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Re: MOVE does not work with paths containing spaces
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2018, 02:51:53 PM »
The limitation only applies to reversible MOVEs. I don't know why. So if you are okay with the backup being uninstallable, you can just use MOVE +.

 

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