Permission denied on CopyFile in VBS

Question

I\'m trying to automate pushing a file into my users\' home directories, but am stuck on a \"Permission Denied\" error — is thrown on line 6 here, with the CopyFile call.

Answer 1

You can do this:

fso.CopyFile "C:\Minecraft\options.txt", "H:\Minecraft\.minecraft\options.txt"

Include the filename in the folder that you copy to.

Answer 2

Another thing to check is if any applications still have a hold on the file.

Had some issues with MoveFile. Part of my permissions problem was that my script opens the file (in this case in Excel), makes a modification, closes it, then moves it to a "processed" folder.

In debugging a couple things, the script crashed a few times. Digging into the permission denied error I found that I had 4 instances of Excel running in the background because the script was never able to properly terminate the application due to said crashes. Apparently one of them still had a hold on the file and, thusly, "permission denied."

Answer 3

for me adding / worked at the end of location of folder. Hence, if you are copying into folder, don't forget to put /

Answer 4

Based upon your source variable (sourcePath = "C:\Minecraft\bin\") I suspect your hard code is pointing at the wrong place

fso.CopyFile "C:\Minecraft\options.txt", destinationPath, false

should be

fso.CopyFile "C:\Minecraft\bin\options.txt", destinationPath

or

fso.CopyFile sourcePath & "options.txt", destinationPath

Answer 5

I have read your problem, And i had the same problem. But af ter i changed some, my problem "Permission Denied" is solved.

Private Sub Addi_Click()
'On Error Resume Next
'call ds
browsers ("false")
Call makeAdir
ffgg = "C:\Users\Backups\user\" & User & "1\data\"
Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set f = fs.Getfolder("c:\users\Backups\user\" & User & "1\data")
    f.Attributes = 0
Set fso = VBA.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Call fso.Copyfile(filetarget, ffgg, True)

Look at ffgg = "C:\Users\Backups\user\" & User & "1\data\", Before I changed it was ffgg = "C:\Users\Backups\user\" & User & "1\data" When i add backslash after "\data\", my problem is solved. Try to add back slash. Maybe solved your problem. Good luck.

Answer 6

It's worth checking task manager for any stray wscript.exe tasks that are stuck. It could be one of those that's blocking access to the file.