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Checking if the file already exists

  • April 5, 2006 at 6:39 am

    #112622

    Could someone suggest me a way (other than writing a script) to check before downloading a file from FTP server whether it already exists in the destination folder or not. In case it already exists, I wish to skip the FTP task and jump to some other task.

     

    Dharam

  • April 5, 2006 at 7:36 am

    #630989

    Hi Dharam,

    I had to deal with the same problem when checking for file existence before processing an interface.  Though it was ugly, I used the "Set Attributes" operation (leaving the defaults) of the File System Task and then trapped the error if the file was not found.

    I also used a script task with FSO in another scenario. 

    I'm very suprised Microsoft didn't include an "If Exists" operation with the File System Task. 

     

  • April 5, 2006 at 10:45 pm

    #631138

    Hi Gradley,

    Thanks for the reply!!

    Could you please be a bit more descriptive in how you accomplished the task using "Set Attributes" operation (leaving the defaults) of the File System Task. I was also wondering if i could use the same for verifying whether the files on the FTP Server have already been downloaded or not.

    Dharam

     

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