Mike: In the meantime, until there's a DLL that does this nicely for you, you can go "old school" and load a directory into a table and get all the info from there:
CREATE TEMP TABLE DiskDirTemp (DirFileName TEXT 8, DirFileExt TEXT 3, DirFileSize INT, DirFileDate DATE, DirFileTime TIME, DirFileAorP TEXT 1) OUTPUT tempfile.txt DIR &vfilename OUT SCR LOAD DiskDirTemp FROM tempfile.txt AS FORMATTED USING + DirFilename 1 8, DirFileExt 10 12, DirFileSize 14 23, DirFileDate 26 33, DirFileTime 36 40, DirFileAorP 41 41 DELETE ROWS FROM diskdirtemp WHERE dirfilesize IS NUL AND dirfiledate IS NULL Karen In a message dated 12/19/2011 12:26:47 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > There are a few scenarios where this would be helpful. > > First checking for the existance of any file in the folder would be > helpful > for error handling. > > Sometimes files are created which should have a minmum size if the data is > > good. Corrupt data ends up creating a file that is smaller than a certain > size. Being able to check for the existance of any files with a filesize > that is smaller than a predetermined limit would help the application to > call for help, call a different app, send an email etc. > > Looking for the existance of a certain number of files such as jpg files > could trigger an app to create a single pdf file out of the group of jpg > files. > > I would like to be able to count the number of files using various > criteria > and display them by changing the properties (color and text) of certain > buttons that do things to the files, ie red for no files, green plus a > number to indicate the presence of a certain number of files in a folder. > > Mike
