FSO issue

logidude · April 19th, 2007, 01:02 PM

Hi everyone,

I have a strange problem with the FolderExist function of the File System Object.

On one server I can run a script and FolderExist work as expected. However I've tried the same script on another server and FolderExist is returning false even though I know the folder is present.

The permission on the folder are set so that everyone have full access. I have searched for a while as to what might be causing this but so far I've been unsuccessfull...any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

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logidude

mat41 · April 19th, 2007, 06:04 PM

Posting some code would help

Wind is your friend
Matt

logidude · April 20th, 2007, 07:40 AM

Well it was part of a complex system but I've stripped out most logic to troubleshoot. I'm left with this:

Code:

Dim FileSys
Dim dirPath

Set FileSys = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

dirPath= "\\computerName\wwwdocs\dir\dubdir"

Response.Write("dirPath " & dirPath & "<BR><BR>")

If FileSys.FolderExists(dirPath) Then
  Response.Write("Folder exist : " & dirPath)
Else
  Response.Write("Folder doesn't exist : " & dirPath)
End if

If I run this from one server, I get folder exist, however after copying it to another I get folder doesn't exist. Since I print the path in either case I've tried copy/paste of the output to the browser address and the folder does exist.

Kinda lost...thanks for the help.

mat41 · April 23rd, 2007, 08:28 PM

mmmm, makes no sense at all to me. Have you checked your case sensitivity? Since your dirPath is a string this is the most likely problem I can see

Wind is your friend
Matt

logidude · April 24th, 2007, 07:49 AM

Hi,

They are both Windows box, so I was under the impression that case sensitivity didn't matter...but I checked and yeah the cases for the paths matches (in my script - and in the "real path")

This is really weird...I thought it would be a simple dumb mistake from my part but now this just stranger...

logidude · April 24th, 2007, 10:20 AM

Hi everyone,

Well ran some more test trying to modify the path using 8.3 notation...nothing is working as far as I can tell on that server in particular. Every other asp script is working just fine though.

I've pretty much exhausted all my options. Any suggestions on what I could try to troubleshoot the issue?

I've narrowed down my code to 4 lines...so obviously it's not an issue with the coding anymore.