How to move/copy a file from one folder to other folder in android using phonegap?

Question

In my application on button click i am able to download a file from url into my SDCARD of android whose path is something like "mnt/sdcard/files/data.pdf" and now i want to move/copy this file to some other destination folder using phonegap. Can anyone please help me how to do this in phonegap?

I have a pdf file in path "mnt/sdcard/files/data.pdf" and i want to move that pdf file to new path "mnt/sdcard/download/data.pdf" anyone please help me.

Answer 1

Assuming you are actually using Cordova, check FileEntry, which has methods named moveTo and copyTo.

Be aware that the file systems API are a callback hell.

One quick example from the docs cooked overlooking the docs:

var fail = function(err) { console.log(err) }
window.resolveLocalFileSystemURI("file:///example.txt", function(file) {
   window.resolveLocalFileSystemURI("file:///directory-to-move-to", function(destination) {
             file.moveTo(destination,"example.txt");
   },fail)
},fail);

I skipped the error handling functions for clearness, suppose it works without it.