Cetin, thanks for this info and I'll bear it in mind.

Regards,

gerard


>A few days ago we were talking about it :) First catch it returns .t. if you say :
>directory('a:\')
>even if there were no disc in. Of course checking device being ready is your problem and every drive has a root dir.
>Next it doesn't have a way to determine when directory exists but hidden or system. ie: on a w9x system we know there is windows\sysbckup dir :
>
>? directory('c:\windows\sysbckup') returns .F.
>? adir(arrFolder,'c:\windows\sysbckup','DHS') returns 1 correctly.
>
>IMHO only a .t. value from directory() would make sense when something other than root is queried. IOW I'd never trust and use it.
>In other cases I would do a adir() and check if 5th parameter has a D in it :
>
>

>lparameters tcDirToCheck
>local array arrCheck[1]
>local lnFound
>lnFound = adir(arrCheck,tcDirToCheck,'DHS')
>for ix = 1 to lnFound
> if at('D',arrCheck[ix,5])>0
>   return .t.
> endif
>endfor
>return .f.

>
>And as a suplementer this would check for drive being ready :
>

Lparameters tcDriveName
>oFS = CREATEOBJECT('Scripting.FileSystemObject')
>For each oDrv in oFS.Drives
>  If oDrv.DriveLetter = upper(tcDriveName)
>    Return oDrv.IsReady
>  Endif
>Endfor
>Return .F.
>

Cetin
>
>
>>Cetin ,thanks for your reply.
>>
>>Do you know in what circumstances NOT to use Directory() ?
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Gerard
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>>Hi.
>>>>Is there a folder(0 function similar to the File() function which will return a True or false depending on the existence of a folder.
>>>>(As far as I can tell, File() does not test for the occurence of Folders .
>>>>
>>>>i.e Is there a Folder('C:\MyHome\Myfolder') function which will return a .T. or .F.
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>
>>>>Gerard
>>>Gerard,
>>>There is directory(). But be aware like file() it's not reliable always. Adir() is more reliable.
>>>Cetin