'open to write' isn't creating file?

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HyperByte

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Posted: 24th Mar 2012 09:45

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I keep trying the "open to write" command in my new program and it doesn't create a new file... it writes the information (i.e. it doesn't crash when the command is called to write stuff to it) but the actual file doesn't appear in the folder its created in like it should be. I've obviously tried all the usual stuff like refreshing and trying different file names... any ideas?

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MrValentine

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Posted: 24th Mar 2012 11:39

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PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING...

STATE YOUR OS AND SYSTEM SPEC INCLUDING BIT VERSION [32/64]

AND ALSO YOUR CODE THAT YOU ARE USING TO PERFORM THE FILE CREATION...

it helps us to help you

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Sergey K

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Posted: 24th Mar 2012 13:14

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Quote: "'open to write' isn't creating file?"

it is creating new file..
but since you dont have any code here to show, i cant help you any feather..

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revenant chaos

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Posted: 24th Mar 2012 15:04

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Have you tried using close file after writing to it?

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MrValentine

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Posted: 24th Mar 2012 15:07

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revenant chaos, you may have as well just asked if he used SAVE FILE...

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Posted: 24th Mar 2012 15:43 Edited at: 24th Mar 2012 15:44

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The command doesn't create the file until you use close file. There are cases where if you're writing a lot of data to the file, it will start to dump the data to disk and the file will appear, but that's probably irrelevant in this case.

Always use close file!

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open to write 1 , "mydata.dat"
   write byte 1 , bla
   write float 1 , doublebla
close file 1

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Ortu

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Posted: 24th Mar 2012 17:58

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also worth noting that open to write will fail if the specified file already exists. It won't crash, it just won't actually write anything.

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Posted: 26th Mar 2012 16:46

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Also woth noting: If you are using UAC (default in Win Vista, 7 and 8) you cannot write a file in the Program Files directory or it's subdirectories unless you are running your program as administrator.

(This caused me some headache some time ago)