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View all page feedback. In this article. There are folders created by me, with subfolders created by me, but the listing consists of folders and files in searchfolder, without listing of items in subfolders. Used minimal amount of code, and commented in English. Kept the names of the elements on the form standard. Used msgboxes to see what is happening, and found something funny.

As you can see above in the folderstructure " - Ring Ring" is a folder. The code sees it as a File, and therefore does not search it. The other subfolders are seen as Folders though. I want to use this to archive my Music folder to Excel, so strings will be cut up to separate artist, tracknumber, song, extention. Got roughly a terra of music aboard, so if you are correct it will take forever youre code will only list files'. More food for thought ;. A File or Folder can have more than 1 attribute added to it.

If your directory has any other attributes added to it along with the Directory attribute such as the System attribute for example, the attribute would not be equal to the Directory attribute. The FileAttributes are Integer type flags that are added together so, you would need to use the And bitwise operator to check if the Attributes contain a specific attribute. Glad to hear this issue has been solved by yourself. Thanks for your sharing, I will introduce this experience to other forum users who face the same condition.

Please remember to close your thread by marking your reply and then start a new thread if you have a new question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading this thread. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Not for VB6 questions. Sign in to vote. Here the code I use to recursivly go through the folder structure Imports System.

Click ListBox1. Clear Me. ShowDialog Listfiles Me. FullName Me. Add FileObject. CheckedItems i. ToString If information. Name Me. Show "Done! Sunday, November 6, PM. GetDirectories sDir ListBox1.

Name ListBox1. Exception Debug. WriteLine ex. Tuesday, November 8, AM. Smith 0. There are some files that are restricted to access by your user account. This may be a cause. Try a different way of detecting directories: If FileObject. Also consider a case-insensitive filtering of extensions. You guys are way ahead of me ; Recently started 3 days ago This is ment to , when I am finished renaming mp3 and flac file to get standard filenames Foldername is Artist - Album Filename is Artist - tracknumber - Song.

Lots of reading to do Thanks everyone for the replies Knowledge is progres. Edited by gavertje Monday, November 7, AM. I get extentions from a checkedlistbox, and they are all lower case Knowledge is progres.

A MessageBox shows the file information. The code sets the log file path to put the log file in the same directory as that of the selected file. The text of the log entry is set to the current date and time followed by the file information. The WriteAllText method, with the append argument set to True , is used to create the log entry.

Browse to a text file, select it in the ListBox , select the Save Results check box, and then click Examine. Verify that the log entry is written to the log. When you click Browse the first time, the Browse For Folder dialog box opens to the current directory.

The SetEnabled method enables or disables controls depending on whether an item is selected in the ListBox. The Save Results check box and the Examine button are disabled if an item is not selected in the ListBox. The following equivalent example uses classes from the System. IO namespace instead of using My. FileSystem objects. Skip to main content.

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