relative paths not working

[Nanyo]

Hello Everyone! Thanks for the help in advance! I am trying to write a primary quiz program. My problem is on lines 35 - 40. I do not get an error message its just that the relative paths are not directing to the right files. I made sure the paths are relative to the current working directory, so that should be fine. So do you have any idea what is wrong with my relative paths?
(Oh and please dont tell me how stupid I am for using goto and system(), because I know :D)

I am using VS 2013

#include <iostream>
#include <Windows.h> 
#include <string> 
#include <fstream> 
#include <cstdlib> 
#include <time.h> 
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std; 

void cleanUP();

int main(){ 
	system("title Primary School Quiz by Nanyo"); 

	int firstNumber, secondNumber, result, answer, score = 0;
	char sign;
	string name, tutor; 

	cout << "Please enter your full name: ";
	getline(cin, name); 
	cout << "Thanks!"; 
	cleanUP(); 
TutorReg: // Called at line 30
	cout << "Please enter your tutor group: ";
	cin >> tutor; 
	if (tutor != "A" && tutor != "a" && tutor != "B" && tutor != "b" && tutor != "C" && tutor != "c"){
		cout << "There is no tutor group \"" << tutor << "\"";  
		cleanUP();
		goto TutorReg; // "TutorReg" is on line 24
	}
	cout << "Thanks!"; 
	cleanUP(); 

	ofstream fileA("../Scores/A.txt", ofstream::out | ofstream::app); //Problem here
	ofstream fileB("../Scores/B.txt", ofstream::out | ofstream::app); //Problem here
	ofstream fileC("../Scores/C.txt", ofstream::out | ofstream::app); //Problem here 
	ifstream fileAr("../Scores/A.txt"); //Problem here
	ifstream fileBr("../Scores/B.txt");  //Problem here
	ifstream fileCr("../Scores/C.txt"); //Problem here


	for (int i = 1; i <= 10; ++i){
		srand(time(NULL)); 
		firstNumber = rand() % 10; 
		secondNumber = rand() % 10; 

		cout << "******QUIZ******\n" << "Q" << i << endl; 

		int fwd;

		fwd = rand() % 3; 
		if (fwd == 0){
			sign = '+';
			result = firstNumber + secondNumber;
			cout << firstNumber << sign << secondNumber << "="; 
			cin.width(1); 
			cin >> answer; 
			cin.ignore(99, '\n');
			while (cin.fail()){
				cout << "Not an integer. Try again:\n"; 
				cin.clear(); 
				cin.ignore(99, '\n');
				cout << firstNumber << sign << secondNumber << "="; 
				cin >> answer; 
			}
			if (answer == result){ 
				cout << "Well done!";
				++score;
			}
			else{ 
				cout << "Wrong!"; 
			}
			cleanUP(); 
		}
		if (fwd == 1){
			sign = '-';
			result = firstNumber - secondNumber;
			cout << firstNumber << sign << secondNumber << "="; 
			cin.width(1); 
			cin >> answer; 
			cin.ignore(99, '\n');
			while (cin.fail()){ 
				cout << "Not an integer. Try again:\n"; 
				cin.clear();
				cin.ignore(99, '\n'); 
				cout << firstNumber << sign << secondNumber << "="; 
				cin >> answer; 
			}
			if (answer == result){ 
				cout << "Well done!"; 
				++score; 
			}
			else{ 
				cout << "Wrong!"; 
			}
			cleanUP(); 
		}
		if (fwd == 2){
			sign = '*';
			result = firstNumber * secondNumber;
			cout << firstNumber << sign << secondNumber << "="; 
			cin.width(1);
			cin >> answer; 
			cin.ignore(99, '\n');
			while (cin.fail()){ 
				cout << "Not an integer. Try again:\n"; 
				cin.clear();
				cin.ignore(99, '\n');
				cout << firstNumber << sign << secondNumber << "="; 
				cin >> answer; 
			}
			if (answer == result){ 
				cout << "Well done!"; 
				++score; 
			}
			else{ 
				cout << "Wrong!"; 
			}
			cleanUP();  
		}

	}

	cout << "Your score is: " << score << "/10"; 

	if (tutor == "A" || tutor == "a"){
		fileA << name << " " << score << "\n"; 
	}
	else if (tutor == "B" || tutor == "b"){
		fileB << name << " " << score << "\n"; 
	}
	else if (tutor == "C" || tutor == "c"){
		fileC << name << " " << score << "\n"; 
	}

	Sleep(2500);
	system("CLS");

	cout << "Do you want to see your tutor group scores? Y/N\n"; 

	string choice;
	//choice = _getch(); - not used
	cin >> choice; 

	if (choice == "Y" || choice == "y"){

		system("CLS"); 

		int j = 0, k = 0, temp;
		string nameInFile[100]; 
		string scoreInFile[100];
		string tempstr;
		int allScores[100]; 

		cout << "******Score Board******\n"; 
		cout << "You got " << score << "/10\n------------------\n"; 

		while (getline(fileAr, nameInFile[j], ' ') && getline(fileAr, scoreInFile[j])){
			allScores[j] = stoi(scoreInFile[j]); 
			++j;
		}
		
		for (int l = 0; l <= j-1; l++)
		{
			for (int n = l + 1; n <= j-1; n++) 
			{
				if (allScores[l] < allScores[n])
				{
					
					temp = allScores[n];
					allScores[n] = allScores[l];
					allScores[l] = temp;
					
					tempstr = nameInFile[n];
					nameInFile[n] = nameInFile[l];
					nameInFile[l] = tempstr;
				}
			}
			cout << nameInFile[l] << " " << allScores[l] << "/10\n"; 
		}
	
		cout << "\npress any key to exit..."; 
	}
	
	system("PAUSE >NULL"); 
	return 0; 
}

void cleanUP(){ 
	Sleep(1500); 
	system("CLS"); 
}

[Moschops]

How sure are you that the binary executable is being run in the directory you think it is? How do you know?

[Nanyo]

Well thats where I had my files at the beginning(not in additional folder) and everything was working perfectly:

C:\Users\Nanyo\Desktop\A453 Quiz Task 3\A453 Quiz Task 3

However when I moved my files(plain .txt files) here:

C:\Users\Nanyo\Desktop\A453 Quiz Task 3\A453 Quiz Task 3\Scores

the magic stops working :D

[Moschops]

Point at which of those directories your executable is in.

[Nanyo]

The first one:

C:\Users\Nanyo\Desktop\A453 Quiz Task 3\A453 Quiz Task 3

[Thomas1965]

Are you sure that the files are in the right folder? If you run the program inside VS "../" would refer to a folder outside the solution folder.

If you run the .exe from the Debug or Release folder "../" would refer to the Bin folder.

The see the current directory you can use this code:

  # include <windows.h>

  char buffer[MAX_PATH];
  ::GetCurrentDirectory(MAX_PATH, buffer);
  cout << "Current directory: " << buffer << endl;

[Moschops]

If your executable is in directory

C:\Users\Nanyo\Desktop\A453 Quiz Task 3\A453 Quiz Task 3\

then your relative path is wrong.

".." means "go back one", so "../Scores/A.txt" from your executable's directory is

C:\Users\Nanyo\Desktop\A453 Quiz Task 3\Scores\A.txt

but you say the files are not in that directory, but in a different place:
C:\Users\Nanyo\Desktop\A453 Quiz Task 3\A453 Quiz Task 3\Scores\

Try "./Scores/A.txt", or move your data files to
C:\Users\Nanyo\Desktop\A453 Quiz Task 3\Scores\

[Nanyo]

oh my god the working directory is

C:\Users\Nanyo\Desktop\A453 Quiz Task 3

not

C:\Users\Nanyo\Desktop\A453 Quiz Task 3\A453 Quiz Task 3

Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!