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

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

Two comments...

First, I'd suggest trying a similar operation via a network mapped drive to a 
WinNT/2K/XP system rather than to the local PC. Doing this over a network is 
significantly more complex than doing it locally.

Second, I have a vague memory that something very similar was a known problem a 
few years ago. IIRC, that was "fixed" in a subsequent release of OS/400 
(NetServer) but maybe also PTF'd. The problem I recall had some relationship to 
the idea that one of the first operations had to do with initially creating the 
new folder on the target system and the temporary name of that folder was 
always 'New folder' for a small window of time. After the folder was created, 
it was then re-named to whatever the moved folder's name was. Memory is too 
vague on this one.

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   2. Re: problem 'moving' folders from one IFS directory to
>      another (Vern Hamberg)
>
>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.

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