topic Re: move(targetFolder) method on dataFile object broken? in Fusion API and Scripts Forum

move(targetFolder) method on dataFile object broken?

SendItCNC — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:30:18 GMT

dataFile.move(targetFolder) causes the dreaded "A software problem has caused Fusion to close unexpectedly" message. Ouch.

dataFile.copy(targetFolder) works just fine.

Here's a minimal amount of code that demonstrates the problem. The important part is the last line where Fusion blows up. Change move() to copy() in the last line and it works fine.

Any ideas for a workaround? I'd really like to move some dataFiles.

Thanks, -Dave

p.s. Wouldn't it be nice to have a itemByName() method on the dataFolders and dataProjects objects?

app = adsk.core.Application.get()

ui = app.userInterface

projectName = 'Test'

project = None

for checkProj in app.data.dataProjects:

if checkProj.name == projectName:

project = checkProj

break

if project is None:

ui.messageBox("Project '{}' not found".format(projectName), '', adsk.core.MessageBoxButtonTypes.OKButtonType, adsk.core.MessageBoxIconTypes.InformationIconType)

return

testFileName = 'TestFile'

testFile = None

for checkFile in project.rootFolder.dataFiles:

if checkFile.name == testFileName:

testFile = checkFile

if testFile is None:

ui.messageBox("File '{}' not found".format(testFileName), '', adsk.core.MessageBoxButtonTypes.OKButtonType, adsk.core.MessageBoxIconTypes.InformationIconType)

return

testFolderName = 'TestFolder'

testFolder = project.rootFolder.dataFolders.itemByName( testFolderName )

if testFolder is None:

ui.messageBox("Folder '{}' not found".format(testFolderName), '', adsk.core.MessageBoxButtonTypes.OKButtonType, adsk.core.MessageBoxIconTypes.InformationIconType)

return

testFile.move( testFolder )

Re: move(targetFolder) method on dataFile object broken?

kandennti — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:24:39 GMT

Hi @SendItCNC .

I tried it and the move method crashed Fusion360 for me too.
I think it is probably a bug.

Re: move(targetFolder) method on dataFile object broken?

BrianEkins — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:51:39 GMT

I can reproduce this and will make sure a bug gets filed.

Re: move(targetFolder) method on dataFile object broken?

Dave.SendItCNC — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 04:40:40 GMT

@BrianEkins

Interesting update on this...

dataFile.move() is now much improved and works... mostly.

If the file to be moved has been saved by Fusion, it seems to work perfectly.

However, in the case of files that were just uploaded (from .f3d's), move() throws an exception: Run time error 2, validation, res. The move is actually completed, despite the exception.

Interestingly, copy works fine on such files.

-Dave

Re: move(targetFolder) method on dataFile object broken?

Dave.SendItCNC — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:18:22 GMT

Actually, I'll withdraw this pending further investigation.

It appears that the explanation may be that since the move() is on a file which is the subject of an iterator, the iterator becomes invalid as a result of the move(). I'm seeing it work in cases where the iterator is over dataFiles.asArray() rather than dataFiles.