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G Dean Blake - 28 Apr 2005 01:24 GMT

I have a directoryInfo named Folder with a name property of "A:\". I'm then
trying to loop through and expand it a level.

But when I say:
For Each myFolder in Folder.GetDirectories...

A series of dialog boxes are displayed saying the drive is empty (it is) and
an exception is thrown "drive is empty". The dialog boxes appear before I
get control in the catch Statement.

This happens for empty CD drivs too.

How can I test for this without getting an exception and all of those dialog
boxes?
Thanks,
Gary

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 28 Apr 2005 11:16 GMT

"G Dean Blake" <gb@nospam.com> schrieb:

> For Each myFolder in Folder.GetDirectories...
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> How can I test for this without getting an exception and all of those
> dialog boxes?

Untested:

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G Dean Blake - 29 Apr 2005 01:12 GMT

That gets rid of the error dialogs but I still get an exception.
Thanks,
G

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 29 Apr 2005 23:08 GMT

"G Dean Blake" <gb@nospam.com> schrieb:

> That gets rid of the error dialogs but I still get an exception.

You may want to put the line in a 'Try...Catch' block.

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