From: Stuart Clarke <stuart.clarke1986@...>
Date: 2009-04-15T18:33:12+09:00
Subject: Copying files and renaming dupes

Hi all,

I have a quick query. I am copying data from a hard drive into a folder
structure, however some of files have the same name and
therefore get overwritten by the most recent file with that name. I have
been using file.identical to establish if the files match and if they do
rename them with an incremental
number (file[1].txt, file[2].txt etc).

This is my identical code

if File.identical?(file, file)
      dsFile = File.copy(file, '\\Test')
      File.rename(dsFile, "#{fileBase}#{x}.#{ext}")
    else
      File.copy(file, '\\Test')
    end

This renames the file prior to copying, which is not what I want. I
basically want to copy files, if a file with the same name exists rename
it.

Many thanks

Stuart
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