Re: Move files in synchronous way
"Alessandro" <ale.mito@tiscali.it> wrote in message
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Hi all,
I need to move some files (size often more than 1GB) into another
folder and only at the end of the move (in synchronous way) do other
actions.
I have problems to do in synchronous way, with following code it's
asynchronous:
//START CODE
{
moveFiles(startFold, targetFold);
//do other actions
}
public static void moveFiles(File sourceDir,File targetDir){
File[] fileList = sourceDir.listFiles();
for(File sourceFile : fileList)
sourceFile.renameTo(new File(targetDir,sourceFile.getName()));
}
//END CODE
Umm--is this some use of the word "asynchronous" with which I'm unfamiliar?
I have not seen any docs that would suggest the rename would be successful,
but performed asynchronously at a later time. The only issue I see here is
not checking the return value to see if it was successful.
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