FIle i/o runtime error 52

[mkiski]

I have a simple VB6 program which opens an ASCII text file, writes some data, closes the text file. Then a MS word template is opened and data is entered via bookmarks. The Word document is saved and then closed. Next another ASCII text file is opened and writen to and then closed.

All of this works fine the first time through the program, but when the user tries to run the program again - runtime error 52 pops up.

Any suggestions?

 

[bboffin]

This error means that you have tried to open a file with an invalid file name or that you have tried to use the VB file # without closing it properly after its first use.

If the program is being completely closed after its first run then it's probably a file name issue. If the process is being rerun from within the same instance of the program it's more likely that the file # needs to be released properly. Try using the FreeFile function to obtain the file number rather than using a fixed value or recode the whole thing to use the FileSystemObject which doesn't use file numbers.


Bob Boffin