Need help with System.IO (C#) (C++, if you replace the -> with .)

[brclancy111]

Hello. I've been programming for 1 year now, and never saw this coming...
When I try to use

File.Exists("Data/Settings.dat")

it does absolutely nothing.

I am trying to build a system that automatically makes a file, if it doesn't exist, after it has been encoded.

string Settings = "";
            string[] NewSettings = { "[BGM 10]", "[SFX 10]", "[ViewDistance 10]", "[Textures 10]", "[Lighting 5]", "[Shadows 5]", "[Gamma 0]", "[Sharpness 0]" };
            string Encoded = EncodeSettings(NewSettings);
            MessageBox.Show(Encoded);
            if (File.Exists("Data/Settings.dat")) { Settings = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("Data/Settings.dat"); }
            else
            {
                File.WriteAllText("Data/Settings.dat", Encoded);
            }

On every System.IO I use on my program will not write / Detect if the file exists.

No Debug window popped up.

P.S. this program happens to be a 1000+ Liner, so I cannot place the full thing here. If you're willing to try and read the 1000+, here it is

[brclancy111]

ah..found the problem...the files were going into the drive folder instead of the wanted folder

[Plater]

I was going to suggest verifying that the files really do exist, as File.Exists() is usually pretty solid.

[brclancy111]

I was missing

System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location)

For the current folder.