Ron.Stordahl
9th September 2011 05:59 UTC

Copy an existing folder to a new location
  I need my installer to move an existing folder on the target system to a new location on the same system. All contents including subfolders must be moved.

I believe I could do:

ExecWait '"XCOPY" "Source-Folder" "Dest-Folder" /e /i /y' 

But is there an built in command I can put in my installer to do the same thing?

hypheni9
9th September 2011 06:25 UTC

Simple think would be CopyFile.

CopyFiles /SILENT "SourceDir\*.*" "DestDir\"
RMDir /r "SourceDir"

Ron.Stordahl
10th September 2011 15:46 UTC

Thank you...it is exactly what I needed. Here is a snippet of code that I am using:

ClearErrors

>${If} ${FileExists} "$0\*.*"    ;Folder $0 exists

  CreateDirectory $INSTDIR

  CopyFiles/SILENT "$0\*.*" "$INSTDIR"

 RMDir /r $0

>${Else}    ;Folder $0 does not exist

  ;-----

${Endif} 

Afrow UK
10th September 2011 16:26 UTC

If you are going to delete the original folder, why not use Rename? Rename can move folders.

Stu