Moving/Renaming Files

[phflack]

is there a way to rename or move instead of reading/writing the whole file to the new position/name and deleting the old one?

[Ad Bot]

[otto-san]

p sure fileCopy is a thing but i'm not 100% sure just checked, it does exist. you can move and rename the file as you do that. fileCopy("path/fileA", "path2/fileRenamed");, and then delete the old file using fileDelete("path/fileA");

[phflack]

cool, thanks
i'm guessing it will also overwrite files?
ie path2 and path1 exist
filecopy(path1, path2)
filedelete(path1)
now only path2 exists as path1's file?

[Ipquarx]

cool, thanks
i'm guessing it will also overwrite files?
ie path2 and path1 exist
filecopy(path1, path2)
filedelete(path1)
now only path2 exists as path1's file?

This is correct, yes
While confirming otto-sans answer, I fount the intriguing function filecopy_hack. Wonder what it does...

[phflack]

This is correct, yes
While confirming otto-sans answer, I fount the intriguing function filecopy_hack. Wonder what it does...

was just thinking about this for a bit
could it copy files to outside blockland's directory?
ie the move of the BL folder from program files to documents

[Val]

filecopy_hack doesn't appear to be an engine function nor any default script-defined function. Probably defined in an add-on.

[Zeblote]

was just thinking about this for a bit
could it copy files to outside blockland's directory?
ie the move of the BL folder from program files to documents

No, it has the same restrictions of a fileobject (can only access subfolders config, base, saves, screenshots, editor) and you also can't copy from/to zip files.