Movefile gives unknown error upon moving .txt files

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I have been trying to move some .txt files using the movefile function. While this works perfect for all other files but .txt files - using for instance:
movefile('*.script','scripts');
The command
movefile('*.txt','scripts');
will give "Error using movefile Unknown error occurred." Just to make things more strange: all .txt files are moved despite the error message, but the program stops anyway.

Answers (4)

suresh regana
suresh regana on 2 Nov 2018
Edited: suresh regana on 2 Nov 2018
Hi
it may help you.
Before executing the command movefile('*.script','scripts'); make sure all files should be closed.
try this:
fclose all;
movefile('*.script','scripts');
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Jan Keij
Jan Keij on 18 Sep 2019
Excellent suggestion! Thank you. I got an "Unknown error" from "movefile" when I tried to rename a folder. "fclose all" did the trick.

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Subhra Saha
Subhra Saha on 28 Apr 2016
Does this happen only with a particular directory? Does the error show up when you move one text file? Try giving the full path of the files and then try running the command.

Wayne
Wayne on 21 Aug 2018
I ran into this error and realized I had multiple files (in different directories) of the same name. Perhaps you have text files of the same name in your matlab path? Maybe try changing it to movefile('.\*.txt', 'scripts')?

neuromechanist
neuromechanist on 19 Nov 2019
For me it was the wirte permission, so I needed to run MATLAB as admin or change the permission level of the files.

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