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Hi All,
 
i was wondering if anyone could assist. i have a form with 2 listbox, that allows user to enter in a directory path that is then populated in to the listbox1. I have a button on the form that i want to be able to press which cycle through the listbox items and checks if the directory exists.
 
i was thinking it would be something along the lines of :
     For Each something In listbox1
 
     if system.io.file.exist(somethinghere2) = false then
           'in second listbox display missing directory
         listbox2.item.add("does not exist " & somethinghere2)
          else
             'if the directory does exist
            'do nothing
     end if
 
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this is for purpose to help me with my job, so i dont have to manually check if users have deleted directories overnite.... im not much of a programmer but any help would be great.
Posted 2 Oct '12 - 20:48
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n.podbielski - 3 Oct '12 - 3:35
So what's the problem really? Are you having some errors? And I think you sould use System.IO.Directory.Exists not file

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If you're going to check if a directory exists, you should use
 
System.IO.Directory.Exists() function which returns True if the directory exists and False otherwise.
 
If you're going to check if a file exists, you should use
 
System.IO.File.Exists() function.
 
If you want to iterate through all files in a directory, you should use
 
System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(string path)
 
Check Microsoft's documentation on System.IO.Directory
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Posted 8 Oct '12 - 6:36
GeekBond 13.8K
For a simple solution to check if directory is exist just try this simple code
If Dir("yourdirectory") = "" Then
 ' does not exist
End If
 
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Posted 8 Oct '12 - 7:47
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov - 13 Mar '13 - 11:46
Have a shame! It's totally wrong. You need to try code if you want to post an answer. Votes 2. —SA
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