Access mounted volumes on Windows from LC?

Ben Rubinstein benr_mc at cogapp.com
Wed Jun 29 12:07:46 EDT 2016


It wasn't a mistyped path.... but it was my making a mistake! In my lack of 
Windows knowledge, I thought that the volume was mounted - but actually that 
was a server that was 'accessible', but with none of it's volume's mounted.

Thanks to everyone for their assistance.

Ben

On 22/06/2016 17:02, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Mark Talluto wrote:
>
>> The first thing to check is permission access to that folder.
>> Have your program do a sample write to that location and get
>> the results.
>
> That's too smart.  For me that's the second thing I do, but when I do in
> addition to checking the result I also include a call to the sysError function
> so I can learn what the OS might be telling me.
>
> The first thing I do is assume I mistyped the path, so I'll run something like
> this in the Message Box to double-check it:
>
>   answer file "Select your file:"; put it
>





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