<function name="Exists" parent="file" type="libraryfunc"> <description> Returns a boolean of whether the file or directory exists or not. </description>⤶ Returns a boolean of whether the file or directory exists or not. If you want to check for a directory, <page>file.IsDir</page> will be faster since it won't check for files. ⤶ </description>⤶ <realm>Shared and Menu</realm> <args> <arg name="name" type="string">The file or directory's name. ( You must include the file extension for files, for example "data.txt" )</arg> <arg name="gamePath" type="string">The path to look for the files and directories in. See <page text="this list">File_Search_Paths</page> for a list of valid paths.</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="boolean">Returns `true` if the file exists and `false` if it does not.</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Prints whether the `data` folder exists in the base directory.</description> <code>print( file.Exists( "data", "GAME" ) )</code> <output> ``` true ``` </output> </example>