Windows [Solved!] Can't find .txt file after opening and writing to it

[FacesOfMu]

Hi all, I'm having what seems to be a pretty basic problem. I'm trying to open a text file for appending to, and despite file_exists reporting it has been created, I can't find it anywhere:

global.logfile = working_directory + "log " + string(date_current_datetime()) + ".txt"
show_debug_message(global.logfile)
show_debug_message("File exists 0: " + string(file_exists(global.logfile)))
logf = file_text_open_append(global.logfile)
show_debug_message("File exists 1: " + string(file_exists(global.logfile)))
file_text_write_string(logf, "meta_debug Create")
show_debug_message("File exists 2: " + string(file_exists(global.logfile)))
file_text_close(logf)
show_debug_message("File exists 3: " + string(file_exists(global.logfile)))
show_debug_message("Filename path: " + string(filename_path(global.logfile)))

I'm on Windows 10. I've checked the C:\Users\TehManticore\AppData\Local\GameMakerStudio2\GMS2TEMP folders and C:\Users\TehManticore\Documents\GameMakerStudio2\ folders(edited)
I've even copy and pasted the example code at https://docs.yoyogames.com/source/d...le handling/files/file_text_write_string.html and still no text file

Output:

Y:\Game1_6228D944_VM\log 44171.75.txt
File exists 0: 1
File exists 1: 1
File exists 2: 1
File exists 3: 1
Filename path: Y:\Game1_6228D944_VM\

What's weird is that is says "file exists 0: 1" which is before I've even opened the file

 

[Evanski]

Your code during runtime writes a file to C:\Users\TehManticore\AppData\Local\(Your project name)
but game maker being sandboxed will check in the simulated drives (mostly Y: ) for the file

your code will work as you expected in the executable, but running from the ide will result in this issue, to fix this for the time being
check for the file in C:\Users\TehManticore\AppData\Local\(Your project name) rather then working_directory

you dont need to fix writing, you just need to fix reading

 

[FacesOfMu]

your code will work as you expected in the executable, but running from the ide will result in this issue, to fix this for the time being
check for the file in C:\Users\TehManticore\AppData\Local\(Your project name) rather then working_directory

Yes, I've checked C:\Users\TehManticore\AppData\Local\GameMakerStudio2\ and it's not there or in any sub folder

 

[FacesOfMu]

Wait, it was in C:\Users\TehManticore\AppData\Local\(project name) (the folder ABOVE it) like you said! I don't know why it wasn't in the Gamemaker Studio 2 folder.
Thanks!

 

[chamaeleon]

I don't know why it wasn't in the Gamemaker Studio 2 folder.

Because your game is not GMS, it is its own thing, so it should not mess around in a directory that GMS uses for its own purposes.