Re: problem 'moving' folders from one IFS directory to another

[rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Vern,

It works just dandy on my desktop.  exactly as I described.

can anyone else give this a go and see if i'm not crazy?

I'm on w98 and v5r1m0

thanks,

rick

-------original message------------
Rick, does the same thing happen if you have this directory structure on
your PC? If that behaves, then IFS is doing it wrong and there needs to be
a call to IBM, IMO.

At 01:06 PM 8/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>I was doing a little re-organizing of folders on the IFS, and wanted to
>consolidate several folders into one container folder:
>
>The folder structure was similar to this:
>
>foldera (containing:
>   foldera1 (containing:
>     file1.txt
>     file2.txt
>   foldera2
>
>folderb (containing:
>   folderb1
>   folderb2
>
>newfolder
>
>I opened a window mapped drive folder to the ifs, left clicked and dragged
>foldera into newfolder, and selected 'move' as the move/copy option.
>
>It started the move, and created foldera, foldera1 inside it, and
file1.txt
>inside that one, and halted with the error message 'FOLDERA already
exists,
>do you want to replace it'.
>
>what gives?  Is this expected behaviour?  am I doing it wrong?  is there a
>better way to move folders around on the IFS?
>
>btw, if I choose 'copy' it works just fine.
>
>thanks,
>
>rick