Thanks Doug: That is what I found as well and the same potential solutions.
I have been use to having a state property for most all volatile multi-state
objects in VB.net and other languages as well as most DB Management Systems.
The last one I remember that didn't have this feature was Liberty Basic
about 10 years ago and I used a local variable to keep track of file state
then.
Perhaps there was a sys32 DLL call someplace, or another dll call, that
would retrieve that info but I did not run across it at the time nor seen
one pop up easily googling.
Oh well, it is what it is.
Later and thanks for the reply:
Rick USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Lee" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: Checking File State in VBS
I don't see a property or method in the FileSystemObject for it, but
since you're managing the file yourself, you can always keep a
variable that holds the state and updates when you open/close the
file.
But if you're looking to know if something else has the file open, you
have a trickier situation on your hands I think. WMI services may
give you a way to do that, as might running a Net command as a
subprocess. The latter is probably too messy to be worth it though,
and off the top of my head, I don't know how to use WMI to find out if
a file is open by another process. But the answer to that problem,
figuring out if anything has a file open, is more a question of what
the OS will let you do than what Window-Eyes or the FileSystemObject
will let you do.
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 10:41:53AM -0400, RicksPlace wrote:
Hi: I have a file I created using the File System Object. I want to
check the File's state.
Is it opened, Closed or something else.
What Property or methods allow checking a file's state in VBS?
I haven't found anything yet Googling.
So, if you know anything about checking file state could you point me
in the right direction?
Thanks:
Rick USA
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