[Solved] Move OpenOffice.org 3 Folder from Start Menu cmd-li

[qwertz42]

Hi everybody,

after some elongated research - without results - I'm posting my problem here:
OS: Win XP (SP 3), DE
OOo: 3.2.1
Target: to move the "OpenOffice.org 3" folder that can be seen in the startmenu/programs-folder to a subfolder of my choice (startmenu/programs/office) using the commandline

Problem: The Windows-explorer shows and moves "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\OpenOffice.org 3" easily to %AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Office\OpenOffice.org 3". (I'm using the shell variables here as I don't know the correct English Version of C:\...\All Users using a German Win myself.) BUT: Going to "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\" within cmd and then listing the content with dir shows no "OpenOffice.org 3" folder whatsoever.

I'm assuming that some kind of soft link ist used that the Windows-explorer does interpret properly to link the "OpenOffice.org 3" Start Menu folder into %AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\".

But for a customized installation at my school I'd like to move the "OpenOffice.org 3" folder as mentioned above using a script-line like

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MOVE /Y "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\OpenOffice.org 3" "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Office\"

.
Any (easy) way to do that?

Cheers
qwertz42

[rudolfo]

The explorer doesn't care for file/directory attributes like hidden, system and others. But the command line operations MOVE and COPY do not operate on files with the hidden or system attribute and DIR requires the /A option to show them.
My installation (german win2k) gives me:

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C:\home\All Users\Startmenü\Programme>attrib "OpenOffice.org 3.1"
   S       C:\home\All Users\Startmenü\Programme\OpenOffice.org 3.1
C:\home\All Users\Startmenü\Programme>attrib Autostart
A          C:\home\All Users\Startmenü\Programme\Autostart

Just a guess: wrap your move operation into
attrib -s "OpenOffice.org 3"
....
cd newDirectory
attrib +s "OpenOffice.org 3"

There is a hidden desktop.ini file in the OpenOffice.org 3 folder, you might have to unhide this file, as well, before the move command works correctly.

[qwertz42]

Cheers,

that did the job.

cu
qwertz42