Permission denied error

[EzehM]

I have a script that tries to delete a file. It however returns the following: Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Permission denied.

My questions are
1. How can I write a script that uses DeleteFile, and ensure that the script doesnt exit if it encounters a problem trying to delete the file.
2. If (1) is not possible, how can I ensure that the shell Cscript.exe returns a non-zero error code anytime it encounters a runtime error

Thanks
Milton

 

[MrGreed]

On error resume next

'Try your deletefile routine

then text after the routine if an error happened

if err.number>0 then
'Error happened, do something
end if "did you just say Minkey?, yes that's what I said."

MrGreed

http://www.pastame.com

 

[dilettante]

This was just covered in the past couple weeks in thread329-501143. Often you can get a quicker answer by doing a forum search before asking the same question again.

This particular error is often the result of trying to delete a read-only file. The way you get around it is to pass the DeleteFile method a value of True for the second optional parameter force.

Have you tried reading the Windows Script documentation from

http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting

yet? That site offers a comprehensive downloadable reference document there that is very helpful.