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Jun 02.2004

This has me a little stumped. Is there a way to copy a whole directory on the server, i.e. make a duplicate of it?

copy() reports a permissions error because the directory has files inside it. permissions aren’t a problem because I can happily delete directories even if they have files in, just not copy, apparently.

Is there a simple duplication method, or will I have to do it the long way with mkdir() and by copying over each and every file?

Thanks in advance.

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@JonaJun 02.2004 — [font=arial]What are the file permissions of the folder you're trying to copy?[/font]
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@mityaauthorJun 02.2004 — I'm on my local testing server, which is windows so there's no CHMOD involved. In short, I don't know.

Are you saying this would work on a non-windows server (which is where this will eventually end up) providing the CHMOD was set high enough?
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@JonaJun 02.2004 — [font=arial]I'm pretty sure Windows does have file permissions, but they're rarely ever a problem. I have a local testing server as well, but haven't had any such problems. If possible, I'd suggest trying to put it on a *NIX server and testing it there.[/font]
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@96turnerriJun 03.2004 — [i]Originally posted by mitya [/i]

[B]I'm on my local testing server, which is windows so there's no CHMOD involved.[/B][/QUOTE]

hmmmm, i think it does
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@JonaJun 03.2004 — [font=arial]It does have file permissions. I created a directory indexing PHP script, which lists the files of a directory, their file size, their file type (extension), and their file permissions. Most of the files say "666." It says this on my local testing server, so there are file permissions. Try checking out the CHMOD function at PHP.net[/font]
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@mityaauthorJun 03.2004 — Hmm, I meant you can't right click on a windows folder and edit its chmod. There's no link for it in the context menu in windows explorer mode.

Thanks anyway.
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@96turnerriJun 03.2004 — right click on file/folder and go properties its in there
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@JonaJun 04.2004 — [i]Originally posted by 96turnerri [/i]

[B]right click on file/folder and go properties its in there [/B][/QUOTE]

[font=arial]In the form of "read-only, archive," or, "hidden"?[/font]
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