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CkFileAccess ActiveX Question

Oct 20 '17 at 16:56

HI,

I found a bug on CkFileAccess ActiveX

Dim X As CkFileAccess, L as Long
Set X = New CkFileAccess
L = X.DirAutoCreate(xPath)
Set X = Nothing

DirAutoCreate Returns 1 For "C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\TMPFOLDER" but Directory was not created DirAutoCreate Returns 1 For "C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\TMPFOLDER\" and Directory was created!

If Right Char is "\" The function works but if the right char is not "\" the function do not works!

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Answer

Thanks, but you didn't actually find a bug. :)

There are two CkFileAccess methods for auto-creating directories: DirAutoCreate and DirEnsureExists.

You pass a filePath to DirAutoCreate. A filePath is a path where the last part is a filename. For example: C:\Users\XXX\AppData\something.txt

Filenames don't need to have extensions, so when you pass C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\TMPFOLDER to DirAutoCreate, it interprets it as a filePath, where TMPFOLDER is a filename and the rest is a directory path. The purpose of DirAutoCreate is to create the necessary directories for the filename specified in the filePath.

On the other hand, you pass a directory path to DirEnsureExists. This method assumes you only have directories in the path (it is not a filePath). If you pass C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\TMPFOLDER to DirEnsureExists, you'll get the behavior you wanted.