Working on Windows 7, FMP 12, I have FM and ScriptMaster both on disk C:, I have a filemaker file on disk D:

When I give Read File Contents a path to a text (.txt) file on the Desktop ( C:) or any other path on disk C: it works fine, however, if I use a path on D:, even relative to the filemaker file (again on D:) I get the following error:

 

java.io.FileNotFoundException: file:myFile.txt (The system cannot find the file specified).

 

Also got the error with file:myFolder/myFile.txt (relative to the filemaker file) and with "file:/D:/myFolder/myFile.txt"

 

Any help would be really appreciated!

Solved.

Substituting forward slashes to backslashes.

 

Something else came up. Is there a way to select the encoding in which to read the filePath for ReadFileContents(filePath)?

Encoding solved (partially).

Saved the text with encode Base64 and then just used decodeBase64toText.

 

I say partially because that only works if I create the filePath as a Base64 text.

 

Would still like to know how to specify a character encoding when using ReadFileContents(filePath) when "filePath" is not generated with Base64 encoding.