Vbscript copy file overwrite

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How to over write and write in to a textfile by using Vbscript Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 6 months ago. Active 4 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 19k times. CreateTextFile sname, True spoFile. WriteLine strlist spoFile. Here i did the following code If fso. FileExists sname Then fso. Close End If Whats going on is it will create folder first time,next time it will delete it ,But i always want that file there new fresh one with value from 'strlist' Can any one tell me the vbscript code to do that.

WriteLine strlist is enough — peter. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. If fso. FileExists sname Then 'you delete if you find it' fso. The address of either folder or pic can be found by right clicking either folder or picture and selecting properties.

Find the location descriptor. Note that the picture ends with. So all you have to do is add the folder names. Renaming a file or folder would use the move command, since the copy command causes there to be duplicates. I am using the method above mentioned to copy files to a USB card.

For example, you can use:. Otherwise, destination is assumed to be the name of a file to create. In either case, three things can happen when an individual file is copied:. If destination is an existing file, an error occurs if overwrite is False. Otherwise, an attempt is made to copy source over the existing file. An error also occurs if a source using wildcard characters doesn't match any files. The CopyFile method stops on the first error it encounters.

No attempt is made to roll back or undo any changes made before an error occurs. Files copied to a new destination path will keep the same file name. To rename the copied file, simply include the new file name in the destination path.

For example, this will copy the file to a new location and the file in the new location will have a different name:.