{"id":70343,"date":"2005-02-28T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2005\/02\/28\/how-can-i-determine-if-a-users-folder-exists-on-a-computer\/"},"modified":"2005-02-28T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T08:45:00","slug":"how-can-i-determine-if-a-users-folder-exists-on-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/how-can-i-determine-if-a-users-folder-exists-on-a-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Determine if a Users’ Folder Exists on a Computer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hey, \n

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine if the C:\\Documents and Settings\\%username%<\/I>\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Templates folder exists on a computer?

— JM<\/P>\"Spacer\"\"Hey,\"Script<\/A> \n

Hey, JM. The FileSystemObject includes a FolderExists<\/B> method that makes it very easy to check for the existence of a folder. Just pass FolderExists the complete path to the folder and you\u2019ll quickly get back True if the Folder exists and False if the folder does not exist.<\/P>\n

The only catch here is that you don\u2019t necessarily know the complete path to the folder; after all, each user who logs on is going to have a different path to the Templates folder; that\u2019s because %username%<\/I> is different for each user. <\/P>\n

But that\u2019s OK: we can easily figure out the value of %username%<\/I>, and then use that value to construct the path to the Templates folder. Let\u2019s show you a script that checks for the existence of the C:\\Documents and Settings\\%username%<\/I>\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Templates folder, and then we\u2019ll explain how it works:<\/P>

Set objNetwork = CreateObject(“Wscript.Network”)\nstrUser = objNetwork.UserName<\/p>\n
strPath = “C:\\Documents and Settings\\” & strUser & “\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Templates”<\/p>\n
Set objFSO = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)<\/p>\n
If objFSO.FolderExists(strPath) Then\n    Wscript.Echo “The folder exists.”\nElse\n    Wscript.Echo “The folder does not exist.”\nEnd If\n<\/PRE>\n
We begin by creating an instance of the Wscript.Network object, and then storing the value of the UserName<\/B> property in a variable named strUser. Because UserName happens to have the same value as the %username%<\/I> environment variable we can now construct the exact path to the Templates folder. That\u2019s what we do in this line of code, which simply adds C:\\Documents and Settings\\<\/B> plus the value of strUser plus \\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Templates<\/B>:<\/P>
strPath = “C:\\Documents and Settings\\” & strUser & “\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Templates”\n<\/PRE>\n
If our user happens to be named kmyer, we\u2019ll now have a path that looks like this:<\/P>
C:\\Documents and Settings\\kmyer\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Templates\n<\/PRE>\n
The rest is easy. We create an instance of the FileSystemObject and use the FolderExists method to determine whether the folder C:\\Documents and Settings\\kmyer\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Templates exists or not. We echo back the answer – yes, the folder exists or no, the folder does not exist – and we\u2019re done.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine if the C:\\Documents and Settings\\%username%\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Templates folder exists on a computer?— JM Hey, JM. The FileSystemObject includes a FolderExists method that makes it very easy to check for the existence of a folder. Just pass FolderExists the complete path to the folder and you\u2019ll quickly get back True […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}