I prefer FolderItem.Exists. Given a parent and a file name, you can do the following.

If parent.child(fileName) <> nil and parent.child(fileName).Exists then
...



Charles Yeomans



On Apr 25, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Robert Carroll wrote:

Hi,

Any comments on a preferred method to reliably check whether a file already exists (in a given location) would be appreciated.

I am mostly using something like:

for i = 0 to parentfolder.index

if parentfolder.item(i).name= myfilename then
mybool =  true
end if
next

return mybool

thanks

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