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EganSolo
EganSolo
New Participant
November 24, 2015
Question

Directory manipulation as part of an Extend Script

  • November 24, 2015
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Hello,

I am working through my first extend script.

FrameMaker 12

Windows 10

Given a specified path (say "C:\MyFiles\FM_Format") containing a list of *.fm files which belong to a frame maker book, I want to save a *.mif copy of these files into a different folder (C:\MyFiles\MIF_Format).

I've figured out how to iterate over an open book, open each file and how to save the file as an mif file.

What remains for me to do is

  1. Determine if the MIF_Format exists.

  2. If it does not then create it.

  3. Otherwise, clear all the files in that folder (delete them).

  I have seen another post indicating that I could write a batch file to perform these three tasks and then I could invoke this batch file from within the script, which is great. I was just curious to know if there were native functions that could perform the same?

Thanks for any feedback.

Egan.

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1 reply

Klaus Göbel
Klaus Göbel
Brainiac
November 24, 2015

Hi Egan,

Dealing with files and folder is explained in the Javascript Tools Guide CC in Chapter 3 (File System Access).

You can find it in ESTK -> Help -> Javascript Tools Guide CC

Here is an example how you can delete files and folders:

Folder must be empty !!!

//delete file




var MyFile = new File ("C:\\deletetest\\test.txt");




if (MyFile.exists)


    {


        MyFile.remove();


     }




//delete folder - folder MUST be empty


var MyFolder = new Folder ("C:\\deletetest");




if (MyFolder.exists)


    {


        MyFolder.remove();


     }

Hope that helps.

    N
    Nissha5DC5
    New Participant
    September 26, 2020

    Hi Sir Not Delete folder incude file

    Klaus Göbel
    Klaus Göbel
    Brainiac
    September 28, 2020

    To delete a folder + all files + all subfolders just have a look here:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker/afile-remove-not-working-as-expected/m-p/8143478?page=1

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