Open folder (call shell) not known full filename

[Ignasis]

Hello!

My macro creates folders named year.number.description (2016.185.Hello).

The problem is that this name may be changed, so for example, after some days someone renames it to 2016.185.Hi

In the same macro there is an option to open that folder.

I thought that adding ".*" would work but it seems not.

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Thanks for your attention!

[FoxSeaLady]

Hi

Is it possible to prevent others renaming the folder as I think that may be the better solution.

Cheers

[AlphaFrog]

Hello!

My macro creates folders named year.number.description (2016.185.Hello).

The problem is that this name may be changed, so for example, after some days someone renames it to 2016.185.Hi

In the same macro there is an option to open that folder.

I thought that adding ".*" would work but it seems not.

Try this...

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[Ignasis]

AlphaFrog, your code works perfect!!

Thank you very much!

And..would you mind explaining what does this code? I searched getattr function and seems you want to find the current directory for the folder or something like this?

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thanks for your time!

[AlphaFrog]

You're welcome.

The DIR function with a wildcard will return the first match it finds in the given root folder. That match can be a subfolder or a file. That code block you asked about tests if the match was of type folder, and if not then loop until it does find a match that is of type folder.

[Ignasis]

Great, I see the logic!

thanks again sir!

edit: marked as solution, sorry for the delay.