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Tris's avatar
Tris
Contributor
5 years ago

Delete File methods not working

Hi,    I've been attempting to pass in a string to either the aqFileSystem.DeleteFile and/or aqFile.Delete methods in order to delete a single file based on the string, passed in. I am having an is...
  • Wamboo's avatar
    Wamboo
    5 years ago

    In the example you provided, the path to the file you want to delete is badly created dynamically.

     

    See my attached file.

     

    So if you specify the path manually it works properly and if you specify it by the .Path method it doesn't work because you're formatting it badly.

     

     

santi's avatar
santi
Contributor

1. Is that folder or file accessible 

2. Do you have admin permission while executing script

3. what if Log.Message(.....) not there inside function ? is it still throws error ?

4. Why dont you just return a bool at end of function and see the file status.

Tris's avatar
Tris
Contributor
5 years ago

Hi Santi,

 

  1. The file/folder is accessable
  2. I am running TestComplete as admin (and have full admin rights on the PC it is running on)
  3. I attempted to run with or without the message, not no error is thrown, I took the screenshot during execution to show string passed in
  4. I don't think the affects the method's function

Thanks,

Tris

  • Wamboo's avatar
    Wamboo
    Community Hero
    5 years ago

    In the example you provided, the path to the file you want to delete is badly created dynamically.

     

    See my attached file.

     

    So if you specify the path manually it works properly and if you specify it by the .Path method it doesn't work because you're formatting it badly.

     

     

    • Tris's avatar
      Tris
      Contributor
      5 years ago

      Thanks Wamboo, it was indeed the case that I was adding in formatting unnecessarily - for some reason I thought I needed to add it to the string based on the example I saw, however when declaring the variable the formatting is actually removed from the string once defined.

       

      A dumb mistake that took me too long to get! 

       

      To anyone interested, I had to amend to the below:

       

      // At this point a file has been identified for deletion and we are simply creating the expected string value to pass in using the file path.
function OldLogsDelete(aFile){
  var DateTime = aqDateTime.Now();
  var DateTimeMinusXDays = aqDateTime.AddDays(DateTime, -14);
  if (aFile.DateCreated < DateTimeMinusXDays)
    {
      FilePathString = aqConvert.VarToStr(aFile.Path)
      aqFile.Delete("FilePathString ");
      Log.Message(FilePathString + " deleted" );
    }

       

      Thanks again!