Help with backup script on DW site panel.

[stevenlmas]

Has anyone figured out how to have DW JavaScript create a folder on the remote
site and rename it? We need to backup a file before we work on it so I want to
create an extension that allows me to right click on a file in remote view,
select 'backup', have DW check for a 'backup' folder, make a folder and name it
'backup' if there isn't, and copy the selected file to 'backup'. This makes
the folder: if (site.makeNewFolder()){ alert('Created folder'); } else{
alert('Unable to create folder'); } but I can't rename it. Since this leaves
the cursor in the sitepanel in 'rename file/folder' mode I can't figure out how
to progmatically rename the folder. Any ideas are greatly appreciated!
Regards, Steve

[danilocelic *TMM*]

stevenlmas wrote:

> Has anyone figured out how to have DW JavaScript create a folder on the remote
> site and rename it?

Unfortunatley, the exposed API doesn't offer a way to do what you're looking to do.

The only way I could imagine doing this would be with a scriptable 3rd part FTP program that you coudl invisibly pass the selected fodler name and connection info and it would then connect to the site see if there is a backup folder.

Or perhaps you could handle things locally. take the remote selection, find its match locally, create the local back up folder and copy the local file into it and upload that local copy. That would then place the copy in a backup fodler and only create if it isn't already present.


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Danilo Celic
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