# Check that a file exists

Acquire / filesystem

A variant of [List files and folders](https://meridian.online/operations/list-files-and-folders).

Test whether a file or folder exists, is locked, is empty or matches another, as a flag or a condition.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/list-files-and-folders/check-that-a-file-exists>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#list-files-and-folders)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- Apache Hop: [`Check files locked`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/workflow/actions/checkfilelocked.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Check if a folder is empty`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/workflow/actions/folderisempty.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Check if file is locked`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/checkfilelocked.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Checks if files exists`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/workflow/actions/filesexist.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Compare folders`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/workflow/actions/comparefolders.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Evaluate files metrics`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/workflow/actions/evalfilesmetrics.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`File compare`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/workflow/actions/filecompare.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`File exists`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/fileexists.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`File exists`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/workflow/actions/fileexists.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`Check if file is locked`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`File exists (Step)`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tFileCompare`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/tfilecompare/tfilecompare-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tFileExist`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/tfileexist/tfileexist-component) (read 2026-09-27)