Access vba search folder for file

Most of the code here is the same as method 2, but I will show it in full, so you can copy and paste. By entering your email address you agree to receive emails from Excel Off The Grid. Do you need help adapting this to your needs? By taking the time to understand the techniques and principles in this post and elsewhere on this site you should be able to adapt it to your needs. What next? Check out the latest posts:. Thanks Yasser, I appreciate the feedback. I have not set up the website to automatically send notifications when replies are posted.

I will look into it. All is going well except when I try and publish pdfs it stops after the first loop, any help? Hopefully we can work out the issue. I was also able to clean up a few other parts of the code too. Thank you. In this comments section, it appears to convert them into different characters to look more like upon and close quotes.

After you copy and paste the code in the comment above, change the quotation marks to the normal ones which are on your keyboard. Yep that did the trick! Thank you so much for responding so quickly and helping out. You sir, are the man! Greets, Frank. I wish I could take full credit. I originally found a similar code in a colleagues macro. And much like you, I spent a long time working through it over and over again.

Once I understood the principles, I tried to simplify it down until I knew exactly what it was doing. Then I discovered the FileSystemObject and realized that is probably a better option. You have done great help to most of the people by writing or getting it through various sources. Your efforts are remarkable. Mark — your site is great, thanks. I have Looping through all the files subfolders working perfectly as is. Then you will have a known number of items.

Next, loop through through the array to the copy the files to the right locations. I am trying to use your code to apply a password to all files within a folder and its subfolders but struggling.

I am using the macro below to apply a password to all files within a folder — not sure if this is the reason I am struggling! Hello awesome work. I am a bit of a novice and need some help. On running my macro it asks for a unique number. Say I enter and hit enter. It then needs to find a word docx with this number in the file name. Can you help please? This variable should be declared before any Subs to ensure it is visible to all macros within the module.

Hi I want to check if the folder name entrred through inputbox is present in the parent folder ir not. If the folder structure you are working with results in a path greater than characters for your string variable VBA throws and error. Is there a method around this? After finding their folder structure was not critical and was the result of people dropping files and creating a structure haphazardly I restructured their folders and had no problem.

The question still stands, if I could not restructure the folders is there a work around? When I get a bit of time, I might look into it. I have the same issue. It looks like that when going through folders, files name are not all retrieved as the number of characters for both folders and file names is too long. This appears to be a long-standing issue with Excel, there are quite a few forum questions on similar things.

Which version of Excel are you using? I have created a macro which selects the each excel file placed in folder and run the code, copies the value and save.

Hi Pavan — The macro is running in alphabetical order. To get it to run in the order you want, you will need to change to H1 and H2 to H01 and H A full file path is just a text string. So you would need to split and manipulate the strings to work out where the number is, then execute it in number order.

This code is great and I am hoping to build on it to get what I need. I have been trying for some time to get a full list of content in a sub folder structure similar to what is achieved here but I also need to include: path to empty sub folders. I assume that I need to tweak these two lines of code, but I am now at a bit of a loss. Are you able to help? Could you help, please. Print FSOFile. Instead of creating a txt box in each file, the script creates 5 boxes one per sample file in the blank presentation.

Any help would be hugely appreciated. Slides 1. Hi Mark, The post is the best out of all the other info I found on other sites. I need small help here along with looping through the files in folders. Is there a way to check the modified date of the files in the path and to the recent files I need to run the specific macro.? This was very helpful in getting going in the right direction.

My goals to be able to save each file updated with the actions as a new one. I tried this but no luck.. My end goal is to update some files that all have the exact same set up just different data values and be able for them to save in a new folder. Please let me know if you have any recommendations or leads on the next steps.

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Meeseeks Mr. Meeseeks 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Try FileSystemObject to read and write file. You can use FSO to search for files and folders too. Have you tried anything yet? Can you provide a list of example file names? I think you can get what you want using the FileSystemObject as PankajJaju says and combine that with the RegExp library to find the date for each file name you will find an "edit" link underneath your question which will allow you to add in the examples.

Cheers guys! I used Application. Edit: I'll write the code in my question section 'cuz I can't format it into a nice looking block in these comments — Mr. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Following might help For each date which needs to be consolidated, do the following in a loop or an in a user prompted message box where the user inputs the date. You also need to chose whether you want the consolidation to happen in the workbook from where you are launching the macro or a separately opened workbook.

The code below assumes you are consolidating in the same workbook. Prompt user whether to continue to the next date consolidation, if yes, continue or take the new date as an input and repeat the loop. Peekay Peekay 10 10 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. GetFolder Folder.