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Anonymous
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Why is Inventor 2016 Overwriting Files with a Save-As????

Hello All,

 

Can anyone tell me how i can stop my code from overwriting files or do i have to review by entire suite of programs? Partly my fault of course as i was using the oInvDoc.SaveAs that if the file exists when given the new path, it would error out in which i would catch and do some stuff to find a new part number (yes i understand, its shotty, but i program for my team to get the 80% functionality for the 20% work).

 

So now, oPart.SaveAs will overwrite good files without an error. Is there a simple way to change it back to "error out"?

 

Thanks,

 

GeorgK
in reply to: Anonymous

Hello Andrew,

 

Dim curFile As String = "c:\temp\test.ipt"
Console.WriteLine(If(File.Exists(curFile), "File exists.", "File does not exist."))

 

Cheers

 

Georg

Anonymous
in reply to: GeorgK

its unfortunate, but thats what i ended up doing. had to rewrite a ton of stuff. I wonder how many more easter eggs there are waiting to smack amateur programmers in the face LOL