User Guide

70 Server-Side ActionScript Language Reference
File.copyTo()
Availability
Flash Media Server 2.
Usage
fileObject.copyTo(name)
Parameters
name Specifies the name of the destination file. The name can contain only UTF-8
characters; high byte values can be encoded using the URI character-encoding scheme. The
name specified is mapped to a system path using the mappings specified in the
Application.xml file. If the path is invalid or the destination file doesn’t exist, the operation
fails, and the method returns
false.
Returns
A Boolean value indicating whether the file as copied successfully (true) or not (false).
Description
Method; copies a file to a different location or copies it to the same location with a different
file name. The method returns
false if the source file doesn't exist or if the source file is a
directory.
Example
The following code copies the file set by myFileObj file object to the location provided by the
parameter:
if (myFileObj.copyTo( "/logs/backup/hello.log")){
// Do something here.
}
File.creationTime
Availability
Flash Media Server 2.
Usage
fileObject.creationTime
Description
Property (read-only); a Date object containing the time the file was created.