vba failing to export from excel to pdf if the file already exists - vba

Question

Sub printPdf()
Dim strPath As String
Dim myFile As Variant
Dim strFile As String
'On Error GoTo errHandler
Set ws = Application.ActiveSheet
'enter name and select folder for file
' start in current workbook folder
strFile = Replace(Replace(ws.Name, " ", "_"), ".", "_") _
& ".pdf"
strfolder = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\myPdfFiles"
If Len(Dir(strfolder, vbDirectory)) = 0 Then
MkDir (strfolder)
End If
strFile = strfolder & "\" & strFile
ws.ExportAsFixedFormat _
Type:=xlTypePDF, _
Filename:=strFile, _
Quality:=xlQualityStandard, _
IncludeDocProperties:=True, _
IgnorePrintAreas:=False, _
OpenAfterPublish:=False
Call closews
exitHandler:
Exit Sub
errHandler:
MsgBox "Could not create PDF file " & Err & ": " & Error(Err)
Resume exitHandler
End Sub
I am having an issue with saving the pdf files.
If the file already exists in the folder and has some changes made to it the macro will crash with the debugger pointing at the openAfterPulish line and display the following runtime error.
-2214701887(80071779)
"Document not saved."
My goal is that excel should automatically overwrite the old files. Excel will prompt me if I want to overwrite the file when I am saving it manually but crashes when I run the above code.

Answer 1

Check if it exists and delete it. In you VBA IDE go to the tools menu and selecte references. Select "Microsoft scripting runtime"
Dim Response As Integer
Dim fs As FileSystemObject
'We can come back to here after an error.
TryAgain:
If fs.FileExists(strFile) = True Then
On Error Goto DeleteError
fs.DeleteFile(strFile, True)
End If
DeleteError:
Response = MsgBox("Error deleting file. Do you have it open? Try again?", vbYesNo)
' If statement to check if the yes button was selected.
If Response = vbYes Then
Goto TryAgain
Else
Exit sub
End If
On Error Goto 0
ws.ExportAsFixedFormat _
Type:=xlTypePDF, _
Filename:=strFile, _
Quality:=xlQualityStandard, _
IncludeDocProperties:=True, _
IgnorePrintAreas:=False, _
OpenAfterPublish:=False
Call closews