file-copying

I've searched the web and stackoverflow for this. I want to copy multiple files from multiple sources to multiple destinations. I don't bother with UnauthorizedAccessExceptions yet - the files are most likely to not be in use anyway. I can copy 1 file using CopyFileEx-Wrapper from here . However: I'd like the standard windows copy file dialog to appear. And I'd like to copy multiple files - not just one - by e.g. passing an array of source files and an array of destination files. Is there a way to do this? Further more: is there a way to queue this as one task and not x separated copy

I am trying to perform a simple file copy task under Windows and I am having some problems. My first attempt was to use import shutils source = 'C:\Documents and Settings\Some directory\My file.txt' destination = 'C:\Documents and Settings\Some other directory\Copy.txt' shutil.copyfile(source, destination) copyfile can't find the source and/or can't create the destination. My second guess was to use shutil.copyfile('"' + source + '"', '"' + destination + '"') But it's failing again. Any hint? Edit The resulting code is IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '"C:\Documents and Settings\Some

I need to load help files from my windows C# application and move/copy to other system (to its local drive). Application (same C# windows application) on the local system will use it for help. What needs to be done to accomplish this? I understand File.Copy() but i don't know, will it hold for remote system also? jerryjvl File.Copy( @"C:\localpath\file.hlp", @"\\remotemachinename\localpathonremotemachine\file.hlp"); Or something along those lines... the second value is a UNC path. And in case the target location needs a login and password, the following answer is applicable: Copy file to

Anybody know of a way to copy a file from path A to path B and suppressing the Windows file system cache? Typical use is copying a large file from a USB drive, or server to your local machine. Windows seems to swap everything out if the file is really big, e.g. 2GiB. Prefer example in C#, but I'm guessing this would be a Win32 call of some sort if possible. Even more important, there are FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH and FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING. MSDN has a nice article on them both: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/99794 In C# I have found something like this to work, this can be changed to copy

The static method File.Copy(String, String) doesn't return a value. How can I know programatically if that function succeeded or not ? If there is no thrown exception, File.Copy goes well. But I am asking about how to put "no exception" as a condition. Something like this: if(no exception happened){ //my code goes here } Edit: I have solved the problem using a simple counter as following: int i=0; try{ File.Copy(); } catch(e1){ i++; } catch(e2){ i++; } if(i==0){ //my code goes here } Thanks for all contributors. I will go through your answers to choose the best. If the operation doesn't throw