Thread: GetFileAttributes And VirtualBox

I have an application which creates a local directory. Later on, elsewhere in the code this path is checked by using GetFileAttributes and checking that the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY flag was present.

This works fine on my PC but when I run the same code on a virtual machine using VirtualBox it fails. It's the same OS (Windows XP Professional 32-bit) and same setup. But this time it says the flag is not present.

This is a bit of an odd one but does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this?

My blind guess is that you're using == instead of & to check the attributes' presence.

Originally Posted by adeyblue

My blind guess is that you're using == instead of & to check the attributes' presence.

No I'm not and as stated in the original post, it works fine on a non-virtual machine. It is only on a virtual machine that this happens. Your blind guess wouldn't work on either