Correct way to write the file path

[magice]

It seems like i fight with file paths every time I have to include them. I am trying to evaluate if there is a file in a specific folder on a network drive, and i seem to be doing it wrong, What would be the proper way to write this?

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if there is a file "W:My_folder/My_SubFolder/MyTextFile.txt"
  then
    doStuff
end if

[Simon]

Hi magice,
For Windows I just right click on the file and select properties which shows the path to the file. In the case of my network drive I see that though I have it mapped to Z: it actually uses //name(?) of the drive. I have a feeling that this might have something to do with the particular drive software.
For Mac use get info.

Simon

[magice]

Simon,
This app will be used in Windows. When you use windows properties to get the location, it gives it to you in the dos format with backslashes. I am pretty sure I have always changed those to forward slashes to work in livecode. The question is, what else do I need to do to make the above evaluation work, or is the syntax correct and my app isn't working for some other unknown reason? Does it need "file:" or some other specification in the path?

[jacque]

To easily get a file path, do this in the multi-line message box:

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answer file "Choose a file:"
put it

That should give you the correct path in the correct format for LiveCode.

[magice]

Thank you all. It turns out that I had it right all along. It seems that I am having firewall issues on the network drive.