KlaasT
12th September 2006 19:28 UTC

relative paths with copyfiles
Hi.

I know relative paths are bad with copyfiles. But I have folders A with subfolder B. There there a 2 files in folder B and when one of the applications is executed it should copy this file from folder B back up to folder A.

For example

CopyFiles $EXEDIR\file.exe $EXEDIR\.. but somehow this idea won't work.

Have you got any idea of what I could use there?

Thanks

n0On3
13th September 2006 01:12 UTC

I guess the problem is the ".." on the last path.

If you can't come up with another way, you can use the function GetParent which I can't find at the moment.

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Special:...etparent&go=Go

should be here, but sourceforge is lazy right now.

KlaasT
14th September 2006 18:37 UTC

I tried the getparent and inserted it. I used Push $EXEDIR however it still won't copy the file to the parent directory.

Any ideas?

Afrow UK
14th September 2006 18:39 UTC

It would help if you showed your code.

-Stu

KlaasT
15th September 2006 17:32 UTC

Ok. I just found the error. Got the paths wrong so my mistake.