Automation Blocks - if "file exists" = true

Question

I've got a weird one is not making any sense to me. I've tried all sort of combinations of "true/false", "checkboxes" and "null" logic blocks to solve the following, but nothing seems to work properly.

In the following section of blocks, I've got a variable (key location comp file) that is populated earlier in the script.

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As you can see in the console when this script is run, there is a list of 2 files in the directory.

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Which "should" mean that "key location comp file" = true, and the custom input dialog with "select comp" should execute.

But, the script seems to passover the "if/do" and moves down to the "else if/do" where the "No Comp Currently exists" dialog is launched.

What am I doing incorrectly? I've tried inversing the logic with "does not equals" false and that seems to work "sometimes", but not always.

As always, any input you can give is appreciated.

Mathias Moehl · Answer

The debug output looks like your variable "key location comp file" does not contain a single file, but a list with two files.

When you ask the "file exists" block if that file exists, it says "false" since there is no file whose path looks like this lists of two files. So make sure that the variable contains only a single file path, not a list.

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