It seems to make a difference which one you do first. If I do the DIRECTORY() first, it takes 6.75 seconds to fail and the Scripting object takes .003 seconds to fail. If I do the Scripting object first, it takes 4.5 seconds to fail and DIRECTORY() take .001.

So overall, you're right, it doesn't really speed it up that much. Windows must be caching the access. If I wait about 10 seconds between the tries, they both take their respective times to fail, so the Scripting object is faster, it's just not instant.


>Not even this one speeds up here.
>
>>Peter,
>>
>>If scripting is an option you might try GetFolder, in my test directory() takes between 5 and 10 seconds while getFolder takes just less than 0.02 seconds with the following code
>>
>>

>>clear
>>lcNotExistent		= '\\notexistent\notexistent\notexistent'
>>lcExistent		= '\\skyapps\apps\foxv\training'
>>
>>lnStart			= Seconds()
>>
>>? lcNotExistent, Directory(lcNotExistent), Seconds() - lnStart
>>
>>
>>lnStart			= Seconds()
>>? lcExistent, Directory(lcExistent), Seconds() - lnStart
>>
>>lnStart			= Seconds()
>>loFSO			= Createobject('Scripting.FileSystemObject')
>>try
>>	loFolder		= loFSO.getFolder(lcNotExistent)
>>catch
>>	loFolder		= null
>>endtry
>>
>>? lcNotExistent, not Isnull(loFolder), Seconds() - lnStart
>>
>>lnStart			= Seconds()
>>loFSO			= Createobject('Scripting.FileSystemObject')
>>try
>>	loFolder		= loFSO.getFolder(lcExistent)
>>catch
>>	loFolder		= null
>>endtry
>>
>>? lcExistent, not Isnull(loFolder), Seconds() - lnStart
>>