I have a routine to pull my pictures out of the memory card(s), and have got one of the card readers for that. The trouble is that the reader presents five disks - for five possible slots that it has, not just the one slot with a card in it. Since the drive letters frequently change on my machine (don't ask), I just try a few usual suspects, and then add one more to the code if it wasn't in the list already.

The dialog I get says "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive ." (with the space before the period!), "Cancel/Try again/Continue". The caption is "Windows - No Disk" (should I conclude that this is actually a published text, as it has this Heading Case In The Caption?). The icon is a red 3d circle with a white X on it. It is not a messagebox, probably because of custom set of buttons, so ctrl+c won't copy the text. The dialog doesn't take focus, so I have to hunt it across monitors and keep clicking. If I click a few times on the "Try again" it may jump to the other monitor.

The line where it happens is an aDir() call with the full path of the folder where I expect the pictures, something like g:\DCIM\100CANON\. I tried to wrap it in a try-catch, but it doesn't fire. The result of the aDir() is zero, the array isn't created.

Is there a way to detect this condition?

update: using filesystem object works... at least the error is trappable. So this goes before my aDir():

	local llOK
	try
		oD=ofso.GetFolder(tcFromDir)
		llOK=.t.
	catch to loErr
	endtry
	if not llOK
		return
	endif

and oFso is created previously in the caller.