Copy files to specified folders depending on their filename?

[hiccup]

Ok, I had to be a little creative: the screenshot is now in my signature below.

[Ovg]

2hiccup

Copy all 7 lines and paste them into button bar, then edit button with your actual data.

Don't forget redownload current version.

[hiccup]

Ah, I get it, that's handy.
Thanks again, on to the next hurdle;-)

[hiccup]

2hiccup

I have found and fixed a small bug. Please re-download file
from my post. Link is the same.

It's not working yet, and I am trying to find out where it goes wrong.

I am wondering if the AHK script you supplied is working on my system at all.
When I create a small test script myself to see if AHK works, and I select 'Run script' on it, it works, and a small AHK icon appears in the taskbar.

But when I select 'Run script' on your (untouched) script, nothing seems to happen, and no icon appears in the taskbar.
Should the icon appear, or shouldn't I worry about that?

(In case it's important: I installed AHK with the (recommended) setting: Unicode 32-bit)

[Ovg]

2hiccup

Icon appears only while script is working. In case of a small quantity of entries in ini file you might overlook it

Script works only when TC or you pass list of files as command line parameter.

Configure ini file something like

[0]
Overwrite=1

[1]
Keys=Cat/Dog/Mouse/Degus
Target=g:\Animals

[2]
Keys=Beef/Apple/Orange/Fruit
Target=g:\Food and Drink

FilesCopy.ahk from 14-05-2018 07:47

[hiccup]

I've got the button working, but immediately after performing the action, AHK gives a popup error: "Can't open FilesCopy.ini"

I checked to be certain; FilesCopy.ini is present in the same folder as the script. (I created C:\AHK scripts for that purpose)

One thing that is different from your tutorial:
You mentioned that the ini should be saved in UTF-16 with BOM.

I tried that both with notepad++ and Ted Notepad, but neither presents that specific option.

Ted Notepad offers:

ANSI
UTF-8
Unicode
Unicode, Big Endian
BOM (on/off)

Notepad++ offers similar options, but seems to have two Unicode settings named: UCS-2 BE and UCS-2 LE

But neither offers UTF-16

Could that be the problem here?
(probably not, since I have tried all encodings, and none works)

[Ovg]

2hiccup
Unicode = UTF-16

[hiccup]

2hiccup
Unicode = UTF-16

Ok,

I tried both Unicode BOM BE and Unicode BOM LE and neither work.

Also I have tried referencing the button to:
AutoHotkey.exe
AutoHotkeyU32.exe
AutoHotkeyU64.exe

In all cases I get "Can't open FilesCopy.ini"

[Ovg]

I record a gif how it works

https://yadi.sk/i/QRt8nr2Y3VswqL

Check start path in button config - it should be directory with script and ini file

TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
e:\qqq\www\FilesCopy.ahk
%UL
C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkey.exe,1
FilesCopy
e:\qqq\www\

-1

[Ovg]

2hiccup
https://yadi.sk/i/FnEtKQ_G3Vt4Gi

[hiccup]

Ovg, you are brilliant!

I started again with a clean slate, and now it works perfectly.
I suspect I had made some error in a path or something.

Thanks a million!

[Ovg]

2hiccup

You are welcome!

[hiccup]

One more question:

The copying of files is happening in the background. So there is no sign or confirmation that copying is actually being performed, or has succeeded.

Would it be possible to e.g. change something in the script so that the copying process is displayed?

[Ovg]

2hiccup

I'll think about it, but I can't promise the quick solution ...
Now I am quite busy.

[hiccup]

No hurry at all, and no pressure.

Thanks to you and other great forum members I have been able to accomplish in 2 days what I was expecting to take me at least a week.