SAP (Documents/Screen shots/Complete Solution): RE:[visualbasic-l] Fastest Response to Check if a Network Path is Available

Reply from Rob Crombie on May 27 at 3:00 PM

Are you using FF ?
I believe there is a setting to prevent auto refreshing

---------------Original Message---------------
From: Excellin
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 10:34 AM
Subject: Fastest Response to Check if a Network Path is Available

Does anyone else experience this forum refreshing when you're providing a response, causing you to lose all the text you've written?

While you can ping a server, I didn't think that you could do that for a directory.

I know what you mean by Windows taking its time to check on a directory.

If you know of a file in the directory and can check, I believe that the results may be faster than if you're checking to see if the diretory itself exists. Try doing something like this:

Public Function FileExists(fname$) As Boolean
On Error GoTo ErrHandler ' in case of invalid path
If Dir(fname) <> "" Then
FileExists = True
Else: FileExists = False
End If
Exit Function
ErrHandler:
Err.Clear
FileExists = False
End Function

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