Getting Information about your Files
Having come this far, with a complete list of Drives and Folders, the next logical step is to see if we can find out anything useful about what Files our Folders contain. Thankfully once again the FileSystemObject contains a very useful method called Files that returns a collection of files within the current folder.
Building on the example we used when dealing with Folders using the FileSystemObject, we can now gather a raft of information about the files located in a particular folder using the Files collection of the FileSystemObject.
'declare the starting or root folder – you could get this from the Drives
Dim strRoot As String
strRoot = "C:\"
'declare the variables for use with the Scripting library
Dim fso As New Scripting.FileSystemObject
Dim parent As Scripting.Folder
Dim children As Scripting.Folders
Dim child As Scripting.Folder
Dim fl As File
'get the root folder from fso
Set parent = fso.GetFolder(strRoot)
'get the subfolders contained within the root folder
Set children = parent.SubFolders
'iterate through the subfolder under the root and display some data
For Each child In children
'iterate through the filesFor Each fl
In child.Files
Debug.Print fl.Name & " " & fl.Type
Next
Next
Of course, sometimes you already know the location of the file you want information about, so the FileSystemObject includes another function called GetFile that takes as its parameter the full path and filename of the file.
'declare the starting or root folder – you could get this from the Drives
Dim strFilePath As String strFilePath = "C:\Temp\MyWorld.txt"
'declare the variables for use with the Scripting library
Dim fso As New Scripting.FileSystemObject
Dim fl As File
'get the file from fso
Set fl = fso.GetFile(strFilePath)
'display some information about the file
Debug.Print fl.Name & " " & fl.Type & " " & fl.Size
'TODO: add some code to move, copy or delete the file
'you can even open it as a TextStream to read the contents