Rename and Move file do not work

[Anonymous]

Hi,
There are some files in a folder. I need to rename the file with today's date (For example: 05.05.2023_File Name). So, I used "copy file" to copy the file with new name. Then I used "delete file" to delete the old file. And finally, I used "move file" to move the file to another folder. Unfortunately, copy and move file do not work in my workflow. But delete file is working. Can anyone tell me where is the problem?

[harish.mogulluri]

HI Ekram Shihab,
Looks like  the destination path was incorrect you just need to give the foldername inthe destination path instead of giving the path including the filenam

It should be some thing like below.
"C:\***************\project 1\saved email"

[Anonymous]

The thing is that I need to rename the file name. But there is no option to rename the file in Utility- File Managemement. That's why I tried to rename the file using "copy file". What I understand from your information is that  using "copy file", I cannot rename the file. Is this right?

[Mukeshh_k · Accepted solution]

Hi @Ekram Shihab - You can use both options - Copy File & Move File to Copy and Rename but you would have give proper name and extension - let's say for example - I wanted to move a Test.PDF from Folder A to Folder B and wanted to rename this file to Test2.PDF - I would do so by using Move File (If I don't want a copy in the original file location/wanted to delete the original file) or Copy file (If I want to have a original file in the source location or original file location):


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Mukesh Kumar - Senior Automation Developer

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[Mukeshh_k]

Also for adding date to the new file name - I would create an expression like this and put this new file name along with the destination folder path * (Date “/“ can be replaced by “_” or “” to follow naming standards, Just put replace outside of below expression again and give arguments - Save this whole expression to New File Name Data Item - 

see below for expression:

[Anonymous]

For adding date with the file name, I created a data type as text. Then using calculation, I have found out the date and stored in the text data type.

[Sakthimadan]

Hey Mukesh, I'm Madan. Can you please help me to do this exercise "File Management: Automatically rename and move files based on content using Blue Prism." I'm a new to using the blue prism so I don't know to use about it. Please help me to complete this exercise brother😊

[Tejaswini_Akireddy]

There are two issues in this. One is, the path used in the move file is wrong. It should be "\saved email\" and the other is copy file does not work if the extension is not provided.