Re: FolderItem.CreateAsFolder creates a file

[Dennis Birch <dennisbirch@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Harrie Westphal
<harriew@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
> With the lack of information, no code example given, it is pretty tough to 
> try and guess at what your problem may be. How is the folderitem set? Have 
> you done all the appropriate testing for non-existence etc. before attempting 
> to create the folder? Have you tested error codes along the way? All that 
> good stuff. Is the length of this file zero bytes? If your code is truly 
> creating a file instead of a folder I would think its length would be zero 
> bytes since nothing was written to it. If it is not zero bytes then I would 
> think that a file existed that just happened to have the name of the folder 
> and you have not performed the proper tests to see this. But this is all pure 
> guessing at this point.

Good point about no code or other information...

  dim f As FolderItem = GetSupportFolder
  if f = nil Then Return nil

  f = f.Child("Library Files")
  if f = nil Then Return nil

  dim makeNewDestFolder As Boolean

  if not f.Exists Then
    f.CreateAsFolder
    makeNewDestFolder = True
  end if

In this case the FolderItem that GetSupportFolder returns is a newly
created folder. I expected that the file created where the folder was
supposed to be would be 0 bytes, but it turns out to be 45 bytes in
length, and contains what could be the partial contents of a file it's
supposed to contain. That could be due to a routine that runs at
application close trying to write the file that's supposed to be
within the folder. I haven't been able to reproduce the problem on my
own Macs in order to determine that one way or another.

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