Hi ALL,
I am a newbee programmer and started of with python recently. I am
trying write a script which backups outlook (.pst ) files everytime I
shutdown my system. I have writtern following code after some findings
on net. My .pst file path is as follows
c:\documents and settings\060577\Local
k.i.n.g. wrote:
how can i make the following code work, I have probelm with filepath
declaration.
http://effbot.org/pyfaq/tutor-i-need-help-im-getting-an-error-in-my-program-what-should-i-do
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| c:\documents and settings\060577\Local Settings\Application
| Data\Microsoft\Outlook
| where 060577 represents username. I want my script to
| identigy the user
| logged in and go to the resp outlook folder or should be able to read
| outlook store directory path from registry and the copy
k.i.n.g. wrote:
Hi ALL,
I am a newbee programmer and started of with python recently. I am
trying write a script which backups outlook (.pst ) files everytime I
shutdown my system. I have writtern following code after some findings
on net. My .pst file path is as follows
c:\documents and
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| ---
| how can i make the following code work, I have probelm with filepath
| declaration.
| ---
| import os, shutil
| filepath = ' C:\\Documents and Settings\\060577\\Local
|
Thank You all for reply's so far
code
import os, sys
from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
local_app_data = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath (0,
shellcon.CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA)
outlook_path = os.path.join (local_app_data, Microsoft, Outlook)
print outlook_path
/code)
The above code
k.i.n.g. wrote:
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The above code was fine while printing, when I am trying to use this
(outlook_path) to use as source path it is giving file permission error
can you please clarify this
Did you follow the link that Fredrik Lundh gave you?
/MiO
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Hi ,
I am sorry I am providing the code i used as it is. Being newbee to
programming I have tinkerd with various options i found on the net.
start of the code
| code
| import os, sys
| from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
|
| local_app_data = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath (0,
| shellcon.CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA)
| outlook_path = os.path.join (local_app_data, Microsoft, Outlook)
|
| print outlook_path
|
| /code)
|
|
| The above code was fine
| I am sorry I am providing the code i used as it is. Being newbee to
| programming I have tinkerd with various options i found on the net.
Thanks. That makes it a lot easier
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| source = outlook_path
| #source = outlook_path +'\\*'
| print source
[...]
| win32file.CopyFile
Hi!
are your friend.
See, also:
filepath = '%HOMEPATH%\\LocalSettings\\Application
Data\\Microsoft\\Outlook\\*'
and %USERPROFILE% %APPDATA% etc.
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MC wrote:
are your friend.
to be precise, list2cmdline is your friend. see discussion and examples here:
http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-can-t-raw-strings-r-strings-end-with-a-backslash.htm
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Hi,
The following code has worked for me, I will continue from here to make
this further userfriendly.
More I would like to know how can i distribute my python code as self
installer package.
In the process of learning programming I would like take
OutlookBackup.py as my first project and learn
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