>>I want to find out, if the user currently logged in has read-write access to the directory. In other words, I want to return the attributes for the directory for the current user.
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>The low tech answer would be to try, and if it fails and the folder exists then the user does not have rights to that folder :)
I'm thinking this is exactly what I need to implement - I've been writing this test now and will be testing shortly.
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