AvailableSpace Property

Description

Returns the amount of space available to a user on the specified drive or network share.

PowerBASIC Syntax

PROPERTY GET AvailableSpace () AS VARIANT

Return Value

VARIANT. The amount of available space.

Remarks

The value returned by the AvailableSpace property is typically the same as that returned by the FreeSpace property. Differences may occur between the two for computer systems that support quotas.

Example [PowerBASIC]

#INCLUDE "windows.inc"

#INCLUDE "scrrun.inc"

DIM fso AS IFileSystem

DIM pDrive AS IDrive

' Create an instance of the FileSystemObject

fso = NEWCOM "Scripting.FileSystemObject"

' Get a reference to the IDrive interface

pDrive = fso.GetDrive(UCODE$("C:"))

' Get and display the available space

STDOUT "Available space: " & FORMAT$(pDrive.AvailableSpace \ 1024) & " KBytes"

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