Is Binfile broken?

[Bob Sneidar]

For creation of a folder the sys error() returned 0. Following is the actual handler in full. 

on syncFiles theSourceFiles, theDestFiles
   if the last char of theDestPath is "/" then delete the last char of theDestPath
   set the itemDelimiter to "/"
   
   repeat for each line theSourceFile in theSourceFiles
      put theSourceFile into theDestFile
      replace theSourcePath with theDestPath in theDestFile
      
      if not there is a file theDestFile then
         open file theSourceFile for binary read
         put the result into theError
         read from file theSourceFile until eof
         close file theSourceFile
         put it into theSourceData
         
         put item 1 to -2 of theDestFile & "/" into theCurrentPath
         if not there is a folder theCurrentPath then
            create folder theCurrentPath
            put the result into theError
            
            if theError is not empty then
               put syserror()
               answer error "Cannot create directory. Check permissions." as sheet
               close file theSourceFile
               exit syncFiles
            end if
         end if
         
         open file theDestFile for binary write
         put the result into theError
         
         if theError is not empty then
            put syserror()
            answer error "Cannot write to this directory. Check the file path and permissions." as sheet
            close file theDestFile
            exit syncFiles
         end if
         
         write theSourceData to file theDestFile
         close file theDestFile
      end if
      
   end repeat
end syncFiles


Bob S


On Sep 30, 2014, at 10:47 , Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> Bob Sneidar wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 30, 2014, at 09:13 , Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>> To diagnose problems with file access (and many other circumstances
>>> where error-checking is useful), check the result after attempting
>>> the action.  With file access it can be very help to include a call
>>> to sysError there, so you can see what the OS is complaining about,
>>> .e.g:
>>>  open file theDestFile for binary write
>>>  if the result is not empty then
>>>     answer the result &"("& sysError() &")"
>>>  end if
>> Thanks Richard. I get “Can’t open that file.” in the result for the
>> write. Very informative. ;-)
>> Now I have to figure out *why* it can’t open that file.
> 
> What was the OS error number returned from sysError()?
> 
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