Question

i want to ask that if i want to rename a file in javascript, what can i do ? i have try a function which i see it online but cannot work.

function ChangeFileName()
{
    var fso, f;
    fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
    f = fso.GetFile("FilePath/MyFile.txt");
    f.name = "MyFile.htm";
} 

i search online and it says that the ActiveXObject is only available for IE and i intended to use it on mozilla because mozilla comes with ubuntu.

beside this, is there any method that i can rename a file inside the javascript ? thanks in advance for your help .

Answer 1

It is Javascript (in the browser), right?

If you run in the browser it is not allowed for security reasons. I think there is some way to do this using IE and ActiveX but using Pure Javascript I think it is not possible.

But you can do in JScript in the console, for example to delete a single file:

function MoveFile2Desktop(filespec)
{
   var fso;
   fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
   fso.MoveFile(filespec, "newname");
}