The only way I could get my program to work is to wait 5 seconds after it detects a file. I tried really hard to just get it to move the oldest file with File::DirList

 @list = File::DirList::list('$directory','ia',1,1,1);

and stat, but I could never get the number out of the variables.

$last_modified = (stat($filename))[9]

My program works for me for now but who knows the kind of pressure people are going to put on it. Any hints on these in case I really do need to upload the oldest file?

My new code:

use CAM::PDF;
use File::Copy;
use File::stat;
use Time::localtime;

sleep(1);

if ($o==0){
print "\nChecking for files...\n";
$o=1;
}

#Initialize title page pdf
    my $doc1 = CAM::PDF->new("$file1") || die "$CAM::PDF::errstr\n";

#Read each pdf file on the desktop

    opendir(DIR,$directory);
    my @files = grep{/\.pdf$/}readdir(DIR);
    if (@files){
        print "Found file! Waiting 5 seconds before I move it.\n";
        print "Name of file: $files[0]\n";
        $o=0;
        sleep(5);
    }
    else{
        continue;
    }
    closedir(DIR);

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In reply to Re^2: File::Copy - move() function corrupting files by myelinviolin
in thread File::Copy - move() function corrupting files by myelinviolin

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