Issue with file exists stat API

[emam-dev]

Hi All,

File status API provided in the javascript level window.cep.fs.stat and extendscript level 

file.exists is not worked as expected.

Javascript

For a valid file path in the system source

var result = window.cep.fs.stat(source);

result.err will be non zero which indicates file is not present in the system.

Extendscript

var neFile= new File(path); 
neFile.exists will be false even when path is a valid path

Problem exists in both windows and mac.

Is this a known issue?  Is there any work around for this?

Please advice.

Thanks

[Bruce Bullis]

ExtendScript File.exists is working correctly for me, on two different systems. In what version of PPro are you testing it?

[emam-dev]

Hi Bruce,

Premiere pro version 14.6.0 (Build 51)

We came across this issue when file name contains special characters like Test%20Test

Thank you

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

This works fine, too.

var myFile = new File('/Users/bbb/Movies/aaa aaa.mxf');

if (myFile){
	var exists = myFile.exists;
}

Perhaps encodeURI/decodeURI could solve the issue, of special characters (like %20 for space)?