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WriteDirectory() fails sporadically, fix found.
Posted by Chr on 08/14/2012 08:10am

WriteDirectory() sporadically failed. My computer is running windows 7/32. I could fix the problem by checking the result of FindFirstFile(). This does not make sense, because FindClose() should also work with invalid handles, however this fix works: fFile = FindFirstFile(cs_directory_to_create,&fileinfo;); if (INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE != fFile) { ...
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Bug Fix

Posted by rossini on 07/06/2004 03:02pm

You should change the line
if(fileinfo.dwFileAttributes == FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY)
 to if ((fileinfo.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) == FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY)


The problem is that if the directory has more than just the
directory attribute set the check will fail.  I found this
out by turning off the "Allow Indexing Service to index
this disk for fast file searching" under properties for the
drive in Windows XP.  This added the attribute 
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED
thus causing the checks for the directory to fail.

John.

Create folder by current date
Posted by Legacy on 01/22/2004 12:00am

Originally posted by: san dinfer
can any one help me how to create a folder

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please help me in creating folders
Posted by Legacy on 01/19/2004 12:00am

Originally posted by: afsheen nasir

I want to create folder with vc++ code anybody can help me???
- A Lame Attempt !..
  Posted by prasadptc on 10/13/2004 08:54am
```
#include
#include
#include

int main()
{
char pStrName[64];
char pStrDirectory[100];
cout<<"Enter The Name Of Folder To Be Create on C Drive:"<
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```
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SHCreateDirectory API
Posted by Legacy on 12/17/2003 12:00am

Originally posted by: Josh Hogle
If your code is for Windows 2000 or later, check out the SHCreateDirectory API call.
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Permissions under "Inetpub/wwwroot/" NEED HELP

Posted by Legacy on 08/16/2002 12:00am

Originally posted by: BOBA KOPOBbEB

2000 ONLY.

Looks fine at first glance, but acctually failed somewhere on the road. Take a look at Ownership/Auditing

SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sa;

	PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR pSD = NULL;

	//SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR_CONTROL sdCtrl;

	// security inits

	memset ( ( VOID *) &sa, 0, sizeof ( SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES) );

	// alloc & init SD

	if ( ! ( pSD = ( PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR) 

	( malloc ( SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR_MIN_LENGTH)) ) )

	return;

	if ( ! InitializeSecurityDescriptor ( pSD, 

	 SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR_REVISION) )

	return;

	

	// specify inheritanse

	UINT res = SetSecurityDescriptorControl(pSD, SE_DACL_PROTECTED, SE_DACL_PROTECTED);

	printf("- ret = %d\n", res);



	// set NULL DACL on the SD

	if ( ! SetSecurityDescriptorDacl ( pSD, TRUE, ( PACL) NULL, FALSE) )

	return;

	// now set up the security attributes

	sa.nLength    = sizeof ( SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES);

	sa.bInheritHandle  = TRUE; 

	sa.lpSecurityDescriptor = pSD;



	BOOL ret = CreateDirectory((LPCTSTR)path, &sa);

Simple version without any classes, recursion and uneccessary memory allocations
Posted by Legacy on 07/10/2002 12:00am

Originally posted by: Eugen
BOOL CreateDirectoryTree(LPCTSTR pszDirectory)
{
char szDir[MAX_PATH];
char *p, *pNext;
strcpy (szDir, pszDirectory);
pNext = strchr(szDir, '\\');
if (pNext)
{
pNext++;
while ((p=strchr(pNext, '\\')) != 0)
{
*p = 0;
if (GetFileAttributes (szDir) == -1)
{
if (CreateDirectory(szDir, 0) == FALSE)
{
return FALSE;
}
}
*p = '\\';
pNext = p+1;
}
}
if (GetFileAttributes (szDir) == -1)
{
if (CreateDirectory(szDir, 0) == FALSE)
{
return FALSE;
}
}
return TRUE;
}
- Potential buffer overflow!
  Posted by inbugable on 09/28/2004 06:59am
```
strcpy (szDir, pszDirectory); is bad

use:

char szDir[MAX_PATH+1]; 
strncpy (szDir, pszDirectory,MAX_PATH);
szDir[MAX_PATH] = 0;

www.antitux.de!
```
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Try SHPathPrepareForWrite()
Posted by Legacy on 06/12/2002 12:00am

Originally posted by: Patrick Walsh
You will get a kick out of this one.
It will even prompt the user to format the drive if not formated, mount the network drive etc...
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Problems using recursive logic
Posted by Legacy on 11/15/2001 12:00am

Originally posted by: Ashes
Although recursive logic might be simpler to code, recursive functions use up a lot more stack space. So, the non-recursive original code might be more useful, especially if I am creating very deeply nested paths (4K or greater).
However, I agree using the ImageHlp API is probably the best.
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WOW !!
Posted by Legacy on 06/08/2001 12:00am

Originally posted by: Vikas
See 'MakeSureDirectoryPathExists()'
This's really cool !!
Excellent method to create multiple level of SubDirectories !!

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