File Handle to File Name

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Is there any way of re-connecting a File Handle (CreateFile) to a File Path.

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Posted 10-Mar-10 16:02pm

Bram van Kampen

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Solution 1

After you have created the file, open it. You should be holding the file name and path in variables, so this won't be too difficult.

Posted 10-Mar-10 16:31pm

_Damian S_

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After you have created the file, open it. You should be holding the file name and path in variables, so this won't be too difficult.

Well, actually it Can be!

A File Handle is created somewhere in a Stack of Libs. Something goes wrong. To retrieve a Debug Report of 'what' was intended to happen 'where' would be usefull.

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Bram.

Posted 20-Nov-10 15:12pm

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Avi Berger · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-10T16:36:00

Solution 2

To retrieve the file path from a valid file handle returned by CreateFile() on Windows, look at GetFinalPathNameByHandle() [^]. If it was the file name you were interested in, check out GetFileInformationByHandleEx()[^].

Posted 10-Mar-10 16:36pm

Avi Berger