I'm doing something stupid !,

[One Handed Man [ OHM# ]]

I'm doing something stupid !, I must be because this throws no exception, but does not delete the file which "is" there. Amy ideas ?

Try
System.IO.File.Delete("c:\test.txt")

Catch ex As Exception

MessageBox.Show("An error occured :" & ex.Message)

End Try

Regards - OHM#

OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com

[Scott M.]

How about this:

If System.IO.File.Exists(file) Then

Try
System.IO.File.Delete("c:\test.txt")

Catch ex As Exception

MessageBox.Show("An error occured :" & ex.Message)

End Try

End If

"One Handed Man [ OHM# ]" <OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com> wrote in message news:uI**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
I'm doing something stupid !, I must be because this throws no exception, but does not delete the file which "is" there. Amy ideas ?

Try
System.IO.File.Delete("c:\test.txt")

Catch ex As Exception

MessageBox.Show("An error occured :" & ex.Message)

End Try

Regards - OHM#

OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com

[Bernie Yaeger]

Hi OHM:

I see nothing wrong with this - it worked for me exactly as you have coded it. Could the file be in use? Is some funny attribute set? Try it on a different file.

HTH,

Bernie
"One Handed Man [ OHM# ]" <OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com> wrote in message news:uI**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
I'm doing something stupid !, I must be because this throws no exception, but does not delete the file which "is" there. Amy ideas ?

Try
System.IO.File.Delete("c:\test.txt")

Catch ex As Exception

MessageBox.Show("An error occured :" & ex.Message)

End Try

Regards - OHM#

OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com

[Armin Zingler]

"One Handed Man [ OHM# ]" <OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com> schrieb
I'm doing something stupid !, I must be because this throws no exception,
but does not delete the file which "is" there. Amy ideas ?

Try
System.IO.File.Delete("c:\test.txt")

Catch ex As Exception

MessageBox.Show("An error occured :" & ex.Message)

End Try

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Can't reprodcue it. Here the file is deleted. (Framework 1.1)
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[One Handed Man [ OHM# ]]

I was right, I was doing something stupid. I had named the file test.txt, but the system had added the .txt extension, so the real file name was

test.txt.txt

Greeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr <big time embarresed>
Regards - OHM#

OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com
"Bernie Yaeger" <be*****@cherwellinc.com> wrote in message news:uo**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
Hi OHM:

I see nothing wrong with this - it worked for me exactly as you have coded it. Could the file be in use? Is some funny attribute set? Try it on a different file.

HTH,

Bernie
"One Handed Man [ OHM# ]" <OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com> wrote in message news:uI**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
I'm doing something stupid !, I must be because this throws no exception, but does not delete the file which "is" there. Amy ideas ?

Try
System.IO.File.Delete("c:\test.txt")

Catch ex As Exception

MessageBox.Show("An error occured :" & ex.Message)

End Try

Regards - OHM#

OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "One Handed Man [ OHM# ]" <OneHandedMan{at}BTInternet{dot}com> scripsit:

I'm doing something stupid !, I must be because this throws no exception, but does not delete the file which
"is" there. Amy ideas ?

*

Try

System.IO.File.Delete("c:\test.txt")

Are you sure the file exists?

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>