I don't use Windows, but I note that the documentation for Win32::LongPath doesn't show renameL as a method you can call on the directory handle returned by opendirL, but only shows its use as a function - and the examples are all using absolute paths:

# should work
renameL ('c:/file', 'c:/newfile');
# fails, can't move file to directory
renameL ('d:/file', '.');
# should work for files
renameL ('e:/file', 'f:/newfile');
# should work
renameL ('d:/dir', 'd:/topdir/subdir');
# fails, can't move directory across volumes
renameL ('c:/dir', 'd:/newdir');

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So I think you should try using it as documented, and see if that works better. It is also possible that it will treat relative paths as being relative to the current directory, but I suggest trying that second after verifying that it works as documented for absolute paths.

In reply to Re: Contacting the author of a module? by hv
in thread Contacting the author of a module? by BernieC

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