I have following line in my code

fs.MoveFile filepathfrom & "\*.xml",filepathTo

I would like to know whether the above line moves all XML files from the source to destination folder and delete them from the source file or not ?? or it just copy them from source to destination folder and keep them in the source folder as well.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950396.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950396.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2wcf3ba6(VS.85).aspx

Doesn't say a thing about copying files, does it?

Now look here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e1wf9e7w(VS.85).aspx

Enough said?

Thanks for your quick reply.

Those links were really very helpfull but I still have a doubt in my mind that MoveFile will actually delete them from the source folder after it moves them to destination folder ? because it doen't says so exactly in a link....

Okay, I give up. Why didn't you *TRY* it???

But, really. All you had to do to understand the difference is to open a DOS command window and try a COPY command. And then a MOVE command.

Yes, Windows supports both and always has. MOVE does *NOT* "delete from the source folder" because it does *NOT* perform a copy operation, AT ALL! It actually *DOES* just MOVE the *directory entry* without ever touching the actual file. It is MUCH MUCH more efficient than a copy-and-delete operation ever could be.

If you thought that files on disk are PHYSICALLY placed in certain parts of the disk and that a directory represents some sort of reserved chunk of the disk, you are only about 45 years too late. Yes, I remember encountering primitive operating systems that did that...maybe even as late as 35 years ago...but has never been true of any operating system from MS DOS on forward. And ditto for many systems prior to MS DOS. (Come to think of it, even including an OS file system I wrote back in the 70s.)