Moving, Copying, and Deleting Files

The fso object model provides two methods each for moving, copying, and deleting files:

File.Move or FileSystemObject.MoveFile
File.Copy or FileSystemObject.CopyFile
File.Delete or FileSystemObject.DeleteFile

To run the following example, you must create directories named \tmp and \temp in the root directory of drive C. The example performs the following actions:

Creates a text file in the root directory of drive C.
Writes information to the file.
Moves the file to a directory named \tmp.
Copies the file to a directory named \temp.
Deletes the copies from both directories.

[VBScript]
Sub ManipFiles
  Dim fso, f1, f2, s
  Set fso = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
  Set f1 = fso.CreateTextFile(“c:\testfile.txt”, True)
  Response.Write “Writing file <br>”
  ‘ Write a line.
  f1.Write (“This is a test.”)
  ‘ Close the file to writing.
  f1.Close
  Response.Write “Moving file to c:\tmp <br>”
  ‘ Get a handle to the file in root of C:\.
  Set f2 = fso.GetFile(“c:\testfile.txt”)
  ‘ Move the file to \tmp directory.
  f2.Move (“c:\tmp\testfile.txt”)
  Response.Write “Copying file to c:\temp <br>”
  ‘ Copy the file to \temp.
  f2.Copy (“c:\temp\testfile.txt”)
  Response.Write “Deleting files <br>”
  ‘ Get handles to files’ current location.
  Set f2 = fso.GetFile(“c:\tmp\testfile.txt”)
  Set f3 = fso.GetFile(“c:\temp\testfile.txt”)
  ‘ Delete the files.
  f2.Delete
  f3.Delete
  Response.Write “All done!”
End Sub