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Using ActiveState Perl 5.8.7.815 on Windows XP.

I've created a application that takes input from a spreadsheet and then moves PDFs from one directory to another on a networked server. I'm using File::Copy to move the PDFs. The spreadsheet contains about 2000 entries and is parsed into an array. The PDFs range in size between a 20kb to 25mb.

The key code snippet goes as:

#-------------------
chdir $SearchDirectory;

foreach my $file (@data){

if(-e $file){ move($file, $DestinationDirectory }

}
#--------------------

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Here's the question...the script iterates through the array faster than Windows actually moves the files...that is, there is a delay between when the item is told to move the item and when the item shows in the $DestinationDirectory.

Is this problematic/dangerous? If I were to simply select and move the files manually through Windows the files would not move as quickly as the script does. Should I add a wait cycle or some form of confirmation inside the loop to ensure that the file is moved before the loop iterates? Obviously this would slow things down but that would ultimately be the point.

Cheers
phil

In reply to file::move and networks by philc

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