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   There are other parts of the script  not shown  that create and copy folder contents using the same source and destination directories  and they work perfectly  It s only when I use CopyFile that it fails   Dim fso  Set fso   CreateObject  Scripting FileSystemObject    If Not fso FileExists  H  Minecraft  minecraft options txt   Then     fso CopyFile  C  Minecraft options txt    H  Minecraft  minecraft   End If  Set fso   Nothing   H  is a network home directory  to which the current user has full read write privs   I ve tried adding removing trailing slashes from the paths  adding  options txt  to the destination path  removing the false argument    Not sure what else to try  Any thoughts   FYI  this chunk of code  which comes immediately before the error-prone bit above  executes perfectly every time   If Not fso FolderExists  H  Minecraft  minecraft bin    Then     If Not fso FolderExists  H  Minecraft  minecraft    Then         fso CreateFolder  H  Minecraft  minecraft        End If     fso GetFolder  C  Minecraft bin    Copy  H  Minecraft  minecraft   End If

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I ve only ever seen CopyFile fail with a  permission denied  error in one of these 3 scenarios    An actual permission problem with either source or destination  Destination path is a folder  but does not have a trailing backslash  Source file is locked by an application

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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  amp   options txt   destinationPath

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for me adding   worked at the end of location of folder   Hence  if you are copying into folder  don t forget to put

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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

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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

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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    amp  User  amp   1 data   Set fs   CreateObject  Scripting FileSystemObject       Set f   fs Getfolder  c  users Backups user    amp  User  amp   1 data       f Attributes   0 Set fso   VBA CreateObject  Scripting FileSystemObject   Call fso Copyfile filetarget  ffgg  True    Look at     ffgg    C  Users Backups user    amp  User  amp   1 data    Before I changed it was ffgg    C  Users Backups user    amp  User  amp   1 data  When i add backslash after   data    my problem is solved  Try to add back slash  Maybe solved your problem  Good luck

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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

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