Saving copies

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1

Is there a setting to prevent overwriting an existing file when saving a file to a disk location or does this have to be done manually outside of Aspose?

2

Hi,

This can be done by using standard .NET methods e.g.

string curFile = @"c:\temp\test.txt";
Console.WriteLine(File.Exists(curFile) ? "File exists." : "File does not exist.");

Best regards,

3

Right, but what I was wondering if Aspose had a setting that would write a copy automatically if the file already exists? Guess not.

4

Hi,

I think, the following solution will work for you case:

Document doc = new Document(MyDir + @"input.docx");
string outputFileName = "output.docx";
try
{
    // FileFormatUtil.DetectFileFormat throws exception if it could not find file
    FileFormatInfo info = FileFormatUtil.DetectFileFormat(MyDir + outputFileName);
    // File found with same name. Try saving a copy
    doc.Save(MyDir + "copy_" + outputFileName);
}
catch (System.IO.FileNotFoundException ex)
{
    // Save with original name
    doc.Save(MyDir + outputFileName);
}

Best regards,