I am struggling with the file api of windows store apps. I want to create subfolder while data export to write some additional files into. That means:
data.txt
extra
+ 1.txt
+ 2.txt
The data.txt is picked by user so it's no problem to write. But how could I create this subfolder?
storageFolder.getFolderAsync("C\some\path\where\data\is\extra").done(...
does not work. It seems to fail because of the security restrictions.
I could live with the restiction to write into documents. But it also doesn not work when the user selects a data.txt in documents folder.
I'm afraid that this is "As Designed" behavior.
Yoy can do whatever you want in you application specific folders (AppData)
You can read/edit a file anywhere on the system when a user give you the authorization through file activation or filepicker. There is api to extend lifetime of that authorization
You can read/edit a file Inside knownfolder if your app has required capabilities checked in its manifest.
Other file system interactions will fail due to security restrictions.
If decided to let the user select a directory instead of a file. FolderPicker will handle this job. It's not my prefered solution because the user loose the ability to pick a name of the target folder. A create option in FolderPicker like in Windows non-RT would solve it, but no way yet.
So my user have to create a export folder in Documents by Explorer and then pick it in app.
My structure is:
Documents
+ export (created by user in explorer)
++ 2012-10-04 (hard coded by app)
+++ data.txt
+++ extra
++++ 1.txt
++++ 2.txt
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I am attempting to use chrome.apps for a program that needs to write multiple separate log files of data. The user then needs to be able to access these these log files outside of the app in their file system for post processing.
This will need to be done many times so minimum to no user interaction would be desired for file generation. While this is simple in any native program code, I've been finding this very difficult to do with chrome apps.
E.g. can I use chrome apps to create "log_file.txt" & "log_file2.txt" without user interaction?
Is there any way I can have the user just specify a directory then from my app, I would be able to create multiple files within that directory without user interaction?
I've tried to do this in code but I need "entry" handles for the chrome.filesystem. The "getEntry" method requires an "entry" so it seems impossible to create new "entry"s such that I can write to new files.
Any ideas would be appreciated!
Is there any way I can have the user just specify a directory then from my app, I would be able to create multiple files within that directory without user interaction?
Yes. You need to request a directory with
chrome.fileSystem.chooseEntry({type: "openDirectory"}, /*...*/);
As long as you have the permissions
{"fileSystem": ["write", "retainEntries", "directory"]}
you will be able to create files in that directory, and "retain" (save) the directory entry for later reuse without asking the user again. Creating the files once you have a DirectoryEntry should be similar to this.
But that minimum of interaction (asking for the folder initially) is required.
I am trying to automate weekly generation of a database. As a first step in this process, I need to obtain a set of files from network location M:\. The process is as follows:
Delete any possibly remaining old source files from my local folder (REMOVE_OLD_FILES).
Obtain the names of the required files using regular expressions (GET_FILES).
Copy the files from the network location to my local folder for further processing (COPY/MOVE FILES)
Step 3 is where I run into trouble, I frequently receive the below error:
Error processing files. Exception : org.apache.commons.vfs.FileNotFoundException: Could not read from "file:///M:/FILESOURCE/FILENAME.zip" because it is a not a file.
However, when I manually locatae the 'erroneous' file on the network location and try to open or copy it, there are no problems. If I then re-run the Spoon job, no errors occur for this file (although the next file might lead to an error).
So far, I have verified that steps 1 and 2 run correctly: more specifically, there are no errors in the file names returned from step 2.
Obviously, I would prefer not having to manually open all the files first to ensure that Spoon can correctly copy them. Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this behaviour?
For completeness, below are the parameters selected in the COPY/MOVE FILES step.
I was facing same issue with different clients and finally i tried with some basic approach and it got resolved. It might help in your case as well.
Also, other users can follow this rule.
Just try this: Create all required folder with Spoon Job "Create a Folder" and inactive/delete those hops from your job or transformation once your folders are created.
This is because, user you are using to delete the file/s is not recognized as Windows User. Once your folder is in place you can remove "Create a Folder" steps from your Job.
The path to the file is wrong. If you are running spoon in a Windows environment you should use the Windows format for filepaths. Try changing from
"file:///M:/FILESOURCE/FILENAME.zip"
To
"M:\FILESOURCE\FILENAME.zip"
By the way, it will only work if M: is an actual drive in the machine. If you want to access a file in the network you should use the network path to the shared folder, this way:
"\\MachineName\M$\FILESOURCE\FILENAME.zip"
or
"\\MachineName\FILESOURCE\FILENAME.zip"
If you try to access a file in a network mounted drive it won't work.
How could I do with chrome.filesystem to rename a file and save it. For example, if my file is named myfile.txt I would rename the myfile.html and save it without using the saveAs function. And if that's not possible, do I have a solution.
The problem is that I have to save the file on the client's disk. So for me to use the filesystem functions can not be a solution, I have not seen that chrome.filesystem API that allows.
Thank you in advance! I'm a little discouraged. I also watched the browserify aside to work around the problem, but I have not found how to do it.
To rename a file you must have the ability to create a new file on the user's filesystem. You can get this permission by asking the user to open the whole directory in which the project exists. Then you can create any file you want within that directory by calling getFile with { create: true } on the resulting DirectoryEntry.
Edit: See this example for duplicating files selected by the user. Instead of using fs.root as is done here you can use the result of chrome.fileSystem.chooseEntry as the DirectoryEntry in which the file is saved.
currently in my test scripts for automated file upload to browser, the paths are already defined in the value column
command type
target //input[#type='file']
value /Users/.../.../.../filename.extension
in such cases, this script is unable to run on other computers because the path would be different.
my question will be is
is there a way to locate the file in a general folder (for example file is downloaded and in the "download" folder), by using selenium ide can we get the path of the file (/Users/.../downloads/filename.extension)
store the path of the file with its extension into a notepad which i will be using it for multiple test of file uploads later on.
right now if my colleague needs to run the script from his computer, he have to manually change the value to his path.
You could use a suite file that contains a "setup" file to only change the file name in 1 place and the variable is shared across tests in the suite. You could also select an agreed up on place to store the files: c:\test_info\image.jpg.
Or you can make the file available by URL & not local, Unfortunately javascript prevents that for security: How to get the current file path in javascript
Unfortunately I can't think of any other good way unless you all have the same path in a home directory and could do something like ~/test_dir/photo.jpg
I'm looking for a code editor that saves folded/collapsed code. I want to be able to open the file on a 2nd computer and have the same folded/collapsed code structure. I understand that HTML/CSS cannot have this preference built in. If the editor needs to save the file in some propriety file type, I'm fine with that. I just need to be able to export it as plain HTML/CSS files once it's ready for publishing.
(Windows 7)
UltraEdit supports code folding for text files of any type and it supports also saving/restoring of folds on close/open.
In menu Advanced there is the menu item Configuration. In the settings tree navigate to Editor Display - Code Folding and enable at least the settings Save folded lines and Enable show/hide lines and code folding.
By default UltraEdit remembers which file are open with which lines hidden/folded on exit in file uedit32.ini stored on Windows computers by default in directory %APPDATA%\IDMComp\UltraEdit\. But this file contains also all other user configurations like the 2 settings I wrote above.
Therefore it is better to use a project or at least a workspace for editing the HTML/CSS files for your website(s). A project/workspace can be created in menu Project with New Project/Workspace. Using a project/workspace results in remembering which files are open on closing the project in a separate project related workspace file instead of uedit32.ini. The workspace file remembers not only the open files on closing the project, it remebers also which lines are folded, where the caret is positioned in each file, which file was the active file on close, and some other information to restore the workspace on next opening of the project/workspace.
But before creating the project/workspace, you need to enable the setting Save project information for use on multiple systems at Advanced - Configuration - File Handling - Advanced. As you can read on help page opened by clicking on button Help of this configuration dialog, this setting results in storing the workspace file of a project in same directory as the project file.
The location of the project file is defined by you on creating the project/workspace and is quite often in root directory or a subdirectory of a local copy of a website. With *.prj (the project file) and *.pui (the project user interface file = workspace file) somewhere in directory tree of the website, you have those 2 files also shared between multiple systems together with the HTML and CSS files.
See the user forum topics Create project from an existing directory tree? and Why save files to a Project? in the user-to-user forums of UltraEdit and take also a look on Tutorials/Power Tips page of IDM Computer Solutions, Inc.
SynWrite (Windows) supports it. Make some folding, then save a session file (*.syn). This file contains folded states and more. Anytime later, just open session file (menu File - Sessions) and folding (and more) restored.
You have a CSSMENU editor where you can create menu bars. This editor saves a file in such a way that it can be moved to any other pc as you mentioned . Html file will be saved and the related Css files are stored in another folder where you can move those files as your wish. No need of changing any code.