Detecting C: or D:

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On 25/02/2005 at 06:50, xxxxxxxx wrote:

User Information:
Cinema 4D Version:   8.027 
Platform:   Windows  ;   
Language(s) :     C++  ;

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hi i have a problem on some machines to detect if harddiskdrive (on some machines d:) exist. this directories were selected with a fileselector dialog using

  
Filename fnDir;  
if (fnDir.FileSelect(FSTYPE_ANYTHING, GE_DIRECTORY))  
{  
...  
}  

TRUE was returned and fnDir contents 'c:'

i tried the following but nothing worked safe:

1. Tried

  
BrowseFiles *bf = BrowseFiles::Alloc();  
bf->Init(fnDir, FALSE);  
bf->IsDir();   

usually it returns TRUE for but on some machines (windows xp, same C4D version, same configuration of preferences, ...) it returns FALSE

so i tried
2. using

GeFExist(fnDir,TRUE)

and i saw the same.

does anybody know what could be the reason for that behaviour?

[Helper]

THE POST BELOW IS MORE THAN 5 YEARS OLD. RELATED SUPPORT INFORMATION MIGHT BE OUTDATED OR DEPRECATED

On 28/02/2005 at 12:59, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I don't know what could cause this. However, a foolproof way to detect whether a directory exists and is writable would be to create a small dummy file and then delete it immediately.