Copying/Moving a file that is being written to?

[VoodooRageII]

I have a procedure that is going through and checking to see if a file exists in a destination directory and if not then copying the file from the source directory. The problem that only happens very occasionally is that files are constantly being copied to the source directory. Occasionally I get an IO.SYSTEM error where I think that the procedure is seeing and trying to copy the file that is being created. Is there anyway to check to see if a file is open (being created) where I can skip that file if it is being accessed?

Thanks for any help in this problem!

 

[mansii]

I would put it in try-catch:

Try
    IO.File.Copy(SourceFileName, TargetFileName)
Catch
    'Do nothing, or tell the system that the file cannot be copied
End Try

Regards,
mansii