Dear Nick,
I've updated the implementation of file.access() on Windows to fall back
to _waccess() when the security descriptor is not available. It now
works on my system with files selected for offline use even when the
underlying samba share (on a non-Windows host) becomes unavailable. As I
Dear Tomas,
Thanks for your email. This can be easily reproduced if there is access to
a shared folder. I've reproduced this behaviour on both Windows 7 and
Windows 10.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Ensure Offline Files is turned on within Windows
2. Using Windows Explorer, browse to a folder shared
Dear Nick,
thank you for your report. In general one cannot know reliably in
advance whether reading a file will work, if nothing else, there are
possible race conditions with other applications and/or the system (e.g.
a service may lock the file, move it away temporarily, etc). The only
