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Is there a way in Java to determine if a path is valid without attempting to create a file? I need to determine if a user-supplied String is a valid file path (i.e. if createNewFile() will succeed or throw an Exception) but i don't want to bloat the file system with useless files created just for validation purposes, so is there a way to determine... Started by Raibaz on Thursday, January 22, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): } It seems like file.canWrite() does not give you a clear indication... . File file = new File("c:\\cygwin\\cygwin.bat"); if (!file.isDirectory()) file = file.getParentFile(); if (file.exists()){ .. . This would check for the existance of the directory as well .

Error when attempting to save Outlook VBA project When attempting to save an Outlook VBA project I receive the error: The save failed. This could be because there was not enough hard disk space, or the project file is read-only. Hard disk space is certainly not a problem and the project is not marked... Started by LJ on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Can you check where you are saving the project to? Perhaps that location is set for read-only, or you might not have access to it? -JFV By looking at this site I was able to find the location where the Outlook VBA project data is stored: Outlook 2007... .

PHP Warning when attempting to use stat() or filemtime() I am attempting to get the last modified time of a file that definately does exist: /document_root/myfile.pdf -rwxr-xr-x 1 11018 11008 198621 Nov 26 2007 myfile.pdf When i run the following statement (through PHP CLI as root): filemtime('/document_root... Started by Dewayne on Monday, March 30, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): You're not doing something like running this from within a function where you haven't passed through a value for document_root? Are you sure you've got the right path? /document_root/myfile.pdf Looks like an absolute path, but I doubt your "document_... .

Unknown Host error when attempting to connect to connect to Eclipse plugin repository Hello, I am running Ubuntu 9.10 and I'm attempting to install a plugin for Eclipse 3.5 from a repository that my company created. This worked in the past on this linux box and also works just fine on my laptop which has Windows XP installed. The exact... Started by BordrGuy108 on Thursday, February 11, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Try to set the proxy to "Direct" (hence selecting no Proxy... . It's probably this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/486215 It is usually due to a proxy used by Eclipse where it shouldn't use it to access a local self-hosted repo .

MSDTC - Error while attempting to establish a secure connection (Standalone) First off, I don't know if this is possible, but let me describe my scenario. I have a set of WCF services, a SQL Server 2008 Database all running on Windows Server 2008. All of this works fine when I am connected to my LAN, however I am going to be using... Started by Furis on Monday, August 03, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Is there a firewall running on the Windows.... Or Data Source=localhost, to ensure you are using the loopback network adapter (127.0.0.1) . Try using Data Source=. It could be to do with the connection string the WCF services use to connect to the database .

Boost::format - attempting to use HTML as formatter string - need some help Hi all, I'm attempting to use boost::format, where my formatting string is the HTML below. I intend to insert 3x std::strings at locations specified by %s placeholders. In other words - I'm opening the below *.html file for reading, read it's contents... Started by Maciek on Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): If .... You'll need to replace those with %% to get just a literal % character in the output . Boost::format uses % to delimit format specifications ; so the % characters in your CSS are confusing it; it is trying to evaluate them as format specifications .

RPM unable to find dependencies when attempting to upgrade MySQL I'm trying to upgrade MySQL from 4.1.20 up to 5.1.39. v4.1 was installed via RPMs with no issue, but attempting to upgrade throws up several warnings which appear erroneous, such as: # rpm --upgrade MySQL-client-5.1.39-0.glibc23.i386.rpm warning: MySQL... Started by Rowland Shaw on Sunday, November 01, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): If using yum try: yum clean all If not, try: rpm --rebuilddb If that still fails, you could try rebuilding the DB by hand: http://www.informatimago.com/linux/rpm-rebuilddb.html Disclaimer: I have not tested the steps... . Your dependancy database is messed up.

Shell not finding binary when attempting to execute it (it's _definitely_ there) Hi, I have a specific set of binaries installed at: ~/.GutenMark/binary/<binaries...> These were previously working correctly, but for seemingly no reason when I attempt to execute them the shell claims not to find them: james@anubis:~/.GutenMark... Started by eegg on Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Are you are trying.... Is GutenMark (at 76592 bytes) not actually a binary , but a script starting with a !# line which defines the program which executes the script? If that line defined a non-existent program, you would see a 'not found' error message .

System.IO.FileNotFoundException exception when attempting to drop UserControl on Form in designer I have created a custom UserControl in Managed C++ that wraps some native code controls. I have confirmed the control works at runtime, and have been trying to make the control work with the Visual Studio designer by allowing drag and drop of the control... Started by Joe Waller on Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Wrap this assembly with another assembly and manually load your... . Two other strategies for dealing with this. You will have to copy the dll's your self or copy them into your windows\system32 directory . Visual studio is unaware of any unmanaged dependency.

Test Before Attempting Exclusive Lock I've written some code to upgrade a SQL Server database. Before I upgrade the database, I attain an exclusive lock via: ALTER DATABASE Test SET SINGLE_USER WITH NO_WAIT However, I'd like to test the database to see if the exclusive lock is possible before... Started by Camel on Monday, April 13, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Databases don't really have many exclusive locks situations.... What if the database becomes busy from the time you determined that it was not in use, until the point where you try to acquire the exclusive lock? Mainly, a DB lock is just to show it is in use .