Move a file???

[Marbles_00]

Okay, I'm having a brain problem now. What I'd like to do is have the option of playing or moving recorded shows to my server. I can setup an event to play fine...but I can't think of the life of me how to have a button option to move the file from a computer to my server. Anyone have any ideas?

Basically I'm going to have a category of recorded shows. When you select a show, an overlay will pop up as to whether you'd like to watch the show on the local machine, or move the show to the server...so any of the machines in the house can watch it.

[m_ski]

run a batch file with something like this is it (you'll have to check the exact terms);

move %1 %2 (Type 'help move' at the command prompt to give you all options for this command)

Then the command in xlobby would be an execute file command to the .bat file above with the arguments; <file to move>, <destination folder>

[Marbles_00]

Thanks m_ski,

So to clarify the argument, I would want to take the parameter field of the tv show (since that would have the current file location and file name, and place it on a network drive, so for example I have a file called lost.mpg sitting in a directory called recordedtv (c:\\recordedtv\lost.mpg would be my parameter), and I want to move it to a directory called recordedtv on my UnRAID server, which goes by the ident \\Tower\, so my argument would be:

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%parameter%,\\tower\recordedtv\

Hope it's that simple.

[m_ski]

I am not sure if the move command is going to work with a server referred to like that - it may need a drive letter - try it, it might work.
You should probably put quotes around each argument as well, in case there are any spaces in the filename. You also do not need to use a comma (my mistake).

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"%parameter%" "\\tower\recordedtv\"

at the start of the batch file you can put

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echo %1
echo %2

Which will show you exactly what names the batch file has received

[Marbles_00]

Excellent. Thanks for the help m_ski. Now I have something to try out...instead of banging my head off the screen.

[scottw]

You should be able to have a batch file that looks something like

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move %1 %2

Then in XL use the execute event and point it to the batch file and in the arguments section have "%parameter%" "\\tower\recordedtv\"
Just like m_ski says...I am doing something similar. Funny how long batch files have been around and I did not know about the %1, %2 thing before, cool stuff

[Marbles_00]

gees. This ain't work'n for me.

[C-moi]

try this
"%name of database>parameter%" "\\tower\recordedtv\"
example
"%movies>parameter%" "\\tower\recordedtv\"

[Marbles_00]

try this
"%name of database>parameter%" "\\tower\recordedtv\"
example
"%movies>parameter%" "\\tower\recordedtv\"

BINGO!!! That seemed to work moving a file locally. Tonight I will try across the network. Thanks a bunch c-moi, m_ski, and scottw for helping me out.