Re: Drive c: cannot be selected right now.

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Karl,

THANK YOU...!!!!

The scenario presented in the link was very similar to our situation.
The link you provided gave me a clue on what to try. We didn't want
to require the user to perform "external" operations to work around
an internal issue.

THE FIX:

Just before the call to open the dialog box, I reset the directory
to our application's directory.

ChDir App.Path

This fixed the problem!!!

For now, this should work most of the time, as our data files reside
in a subdirectory of the application. If this becomes a problem later on,
the procedure will be re-written to handle it, but for now, it works.
The KISS approach.

Thank you again,
Regards,
DanMH


"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uK6TsZ$5GHA.1248@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
DanMH wrote:
Let's go back to some real "classic" vb...

Using VB3 on a Win98 machine, we are now getting the following error:

Drive c: cannot be selected right now.
Try again later.


Does anyone know what might be causing this error?

I have an application that resides on the C: drive, and accesses data
files through the common dialog. If by chance the common dialog is
directed to open on drive D:, if the user tries to go back to the c:
drive, then they are presented with the above error message.

Sounds a lot like the problem discussed here:


http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:VEHoXAhM72oJ:www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss%3Fuid%3Dsim21c1d6c6be510d9b0852569ec00705c00+%22cannot+be+selected+right+now%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2

I had to send you the GCache link, because it seems the original document
has been removed from IBM's website.
--
Working without a .NET?
http://classicvb.org/



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