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Dec 10, 2012

Dale Fugier replied to peter harris's discussion creating a text file or...something in the group RhinoScript

"I am not sure I am the right one to ask. But if you need to ensure that a folder exists before writing to it, then see the attached sample script. -- Dale"

Mar 17, 2011

peter harris replied to peter harris's discussion creating a text file or...something in the group RhinoScript

"Do you think people would rather have my script create a folder in that directory, or just plop a text file right in there? If a folder makes more sense, I have to figure out how to check if the folder already exists, and if it does not, how…"

Mar 17, 2011

peter harris replied to peter harris's discussion creating a text file or...something in the group RhinoScript

"thanks - I'll try that!"

Mar 9, 2011

Dale Fugier replied to peter harris's discussion creating a text file or...something in the group RhinoScript

"There is nothing wrong with writing text files. But you might have to rethink your location, as Windows 7 does have more folder permissions than XP. Personally, I'd do something like this: Set objShell =…"

Mar 8, 2011

peter harris added a discussion to the group RhinoScript

creating a text file or...something

I have an old timer (not old-timer) script that I use to keep track of the hours that I spend on projects. The script writes a text file to the hard drive, and adds lines of text to it whenever I click on the appropriate button. That worked fine for WinXP, but now that I'm using Win7, there seems to be more security and as far as I can tell, I can't write a text file anywhere consistent on users' machines. So I have two questions: Is there a better kind of file that I can create, instead of a…See More

Mar 8, 2011

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