Button to perform delete of files and copy from open zip?

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Hi All,

For some reason I'm having a hard time trying to wrap my head around this one.

I'd like to create a button that will:

  • Delete all files and subfolders from a specific folder (not the folder currently being viewed in the lister -- in this case, it will always be C:\Users\pt\wiki)

  • Copy all files and folders from the current lister to the folder above

  • Execute a DOS batch file which will then process the files and folders in the folder above

Can anyone give me any help in creating this button?

Many thanks,

pt

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From your subject title it sounds like you want the source folder to be the contents of a zip file. If so I haven't had any luck creating a button that will do everything you want. However if the source folder is a conventional folder, the following seems to work fine on my tests.

@nofilenamequoting Delete "C:\Users\pt\wiki\*" Copy "{s}\*" TO "C:\Users\pt\wiki\" @runbatch "D:\Mine\cmd\Test.cmd" "C:\Users\pt\wiki\"

Personally, I tend to avoid buttons like this. Instead I'd set up a dual lister with the left pane being the zip file contents and the right pane being C:\Users\pt\wiki\

Go "D:\test folder\Source\test.zip" DUALPATH="C:\Users\pt\wiki\" Delete "C:\Users\pt\wiki\*"

This makes it less automatic because I'd have to manually copy the zipfile contents to the destination lister pane but for me it's safer because I can monitor what I'm doing. You could then have another button to run the batch file sending the C:\Users\pt\wiki\ path to it.

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This works, as far as I can tell:

Delete "E:\Temp\*" Copy {s} EXTRACT TO "E:\Temp" "C:\blah.bat"

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Leo that's the button command code I tried to use at first but for me it would only extract the very first file or folder in the zip file.

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That works for me. There seems to be a problem if you use {s}* without EXTRACT where it only extracts the first file, but if you use just {s} and EXTRACT it seems to work.

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[quote="leo"]This works, as far as I can tell:

Delete "E:\Temp\*" Copy {s} EXTRACT TO "E:\Temp" "C:\blah.bat"[/quote]

Thanks Leo and JohnZeman. Leo, I've used your suggestion and it's working well!

Thanks again,

pt