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    Scan Through All Files and Subdirectories

    Hi everyone.

    I am trying to scan through all files within a directory and all subdirectories to find files where the name begins with certain characters. Below is code that will accomplish this for a certain directory, but I do not know how to look through the subdirectories within the specified directory. So, the issues are:

    1. How do I loop through each subdirectory within a specified directory?

    2. I am trying to return the file name, path name (separate from the file name), and modified date. I can return the name. I can return the path, but it includes the name. Is there a way to return just the path?

    3. What is the code to return the modified date of the file?

    Thanks in advance for any help.

    Jason

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    Hope this helps.

    I had a very similiar problem. It was solved by Rylo.
    Here's a link to the thread.
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    Within it you will find a files
    with the code he setup for me. I think you could probably
    use it for your situation. It finds specific files and provide directory paths
    w/hyperlinks.

    good luck,

    BDB

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    Great link. Thanks a lot, BDB. That answers most of my questions. I still have one remaining question, though. Hopefully someone out there can help me.

    Is it possible to return the modified date of each of the files?

    TIA

    Jason

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    Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks.

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    There are FSO methods to get it. If you use early binding, it makes finding those easy. If you don't know fso, get the help file script56.chm.

    For whatever method, you can use VBA's FileDateTime(filename).

    For some other fso and dos methods see my post at VBAExpress.

    Here is an example FileSearch method. It won't work in 2007.
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    Thanks so much for the info, Kenneth. I am very unfamiliar with FSO, so thank you for the help file. I need to do some reading now.

    The property for which I was looking was DateLastModified.

    Jason

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    If the fso help file does not display everything, close and right click it and Unblock it. From the help file:
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    The API method from the API Guide:
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