Re: Check for a Folder or Create a New Folder from within vb

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LondonLad wrote:

I want to save an Access File in a Folder called myDataFile I copied this
from from MSDN but it fails.
My.Computer.FileSystem.CreateDirectory _
("C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\NewDirectory") changed NewDirectory to myDataFile

(1) This group is generally inhabited by those of us still living and working with "VB", up to and including version 6.
The code you posted is "Visual Basic", Our Friends in Redmond's latest and greatest offering which is /not/ the same thing.

Try a group with "dotnet" in the name, e.g. microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb.


(2) Are you running as an Administrator?
Certainly on Vista, the "All Users" area is /not updatable/ by regular users.

(3) Will your /users/ be running as Administrators?
Again, on Vista, they will be /unable/ to update the Access [database] file because it's in a directory that they cannot update (unless you /make/ it updatable, of course).

HTH,
Phill W.
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