I’ve found that if a path contains any spaces, then you need to wrap the path
in ID Quotes. You might want to try inserting this:
SET VAR vBackupDir1= ('`' + . vBackupDir1 + '`')
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Razzak Memon
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2020 6:39 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Stumped
That should work flawlessly!
At 11:39 PM 10/29/2020, Tom Hart wrote:
>vbackdir1 is captured variable from my database so would I just use this
>IF (CHKFILE(.vBackupDir1)) <> 1 THEN
> MKDIR .vBackupDir1
>ENDIF
>
>Tom
>
>On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:10 PM A. Razzak Memon
><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>Tom,
>
>Here is an eloquent method to check the existence of file or directory.
>
>-- Example
>SET VAR vBackupDir1 TEXT = 'XLS'
>IF (CHKFILE(.vBackupDir1)) <> 1 THEN
> MKDIR .vBackupDir1
>ENDIF
>
>There is no need to use extra steps and variables
>to check the existence of file or directory.
>
>Have fun!
>
>Very Best Regards,
>
>Razzak
>
>Razzak
>
>
>At 11:01 PM 10/29/2020, Tom Hart wrote:
>
> >I have been using an autobackup routine for
> >years on many different computers and never had
> >a problem until now. The only thing is that I
> >have put it on a computer with C is ssd and D
> >regular harddrive. Following is the code where
> >it hangs up. I create the backup folder if it
> >does not exist even though it does backup I get
> >a message 'Unable to create directory'
> >2269. If I take out this code it works
> >fine. I my error message related to ssd/regular harddrive
> >
> >CLEAR VAR vdatafile
> >SET VAR vdatafile INTEGER = NULL
> >SET VAR vdatafile = (CHKFILE(.vbackdir1))
> >IF vdatafile <> 1 THEN
> > MKDIR .vbackdir1
> >ENDIF
> >
> >Tom Hart
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