Deleting files with ASP

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JA

Hi,

I am using FP 2000 on IIS4/NT. I have an asp script that creates some files
from a database. It writes from a private subfolder ( _folder) to a
subfolder of the private subfolder ( _folder/folder).

It will work once, but once the files are in there, I can't run the script
again and overwrite them. I get a "permission denied" error. If I go in and
manually delete the files, it will work again.

Neither the programmer or my ISP can figure out what is wrong. The only
other thing I can think of is a FrontPage quirk.

Does anyone have any ideas on this?

Thanks, Jill
 
J

Jim Buyens

-----Original Message-----
Hi,
Howdy.

I am using FP 2000 on IIS4/NT. I have an asp script that
creates some files from a database. It writes from a
private subfolder ( _folder) to a subfolder of the
private subfolder ( _folder/folder).

It will work once, but once the files are in there, I
can't run the script again and overwrite them. I get
a "permission denied" error. If I go in and manually
delete the files, it will work again.

Neither the programmer or my ISP can figure out what is
wrong. The only other thing I can think of is a
FrontPage quirk.

Does anyone have any ideas on this?
Thanks, Jill
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This depends somewhat on how you're creating the file.
For example, if you're using the
Scipting.FileSystemObject's CreateTextFile method, you
have to specify a second parameter such as

fso.CreateTextFile("myfile.txt", true)

if you want to overwrite any existing file. The default
for this method, is false, meaning that the
FileSystemObject won't overwrite existing files.

For more information on Scripting.FileSystemObject
methods, browse:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/
fsooriScriptingRun-TimeReference.asp

If this doesn't point to a solution, please post again to
this thread and include the exact block of code that's
failing.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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