Search for location of a file

Hi all,
Is there some way to find where a particular file is situated. It may in any Drive/Folder. No we are not to use any drive/file listbox etc.. simply a command button which displays the location onto a lable or msgbox. :eek:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...arch+harddrive

This will also work without the overhead of the FSO

Code:

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Private Declare Function SearchTreeForFile Lib "imagehlp" _
(ByVal RootPath As String, ByVal InputPathName As String, _
ByVal OutputPathBuffer As String) As Long

Private Const MAX_PATH = 260

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim tempStr As String, Ret As Long
    'create a buffer string
    tempStr = String(MAX_PATH, 0)
    'returns 1 when successfull, 0 when failed
    Ret = SearchTreeForFile("c:\", "myfile.exe", tempStr)
    If Ret <> 0 Then
        MsgBox "Located file at " + Left$(tempStr, InStr(1, tempStr, Chr$(0)) - 1)
    Else
        MsgBox "File not found!"
    End If
End Sub

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Nice one Hack, but what if more files with the same name in different folders? ;)

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Originally Posted by Radjesh Klauke

Nice one Hack, but what if more files with the same name in different folders? ;)

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Then you wouldn't use that API.

However, the original question was

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Originally Posted by VBFnewcomer

Is there some way to find where a particular file is situated.

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A particular file indicates the OP is interested in finding just one file.

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Originally Posted by VBFnewcomer

Hi all,
Is there some way to find where a particular file is situated. It may in any Drive/Folder. No we are not to use any drive/file listbox etc.. simply a command button which displays the location onto a lable or msgbox. :eek:

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I don't get it. There is no such concept as "a particular file" that I know about. There is just "all files that have name xxxxxxx".

So do you want a listbox with all the directories that files with a given name appear in? A bit like the Windows F3 search?

Mac

Thank you both Radjesh & Hack, as well as Randem & Static (in the link thread).

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A particular file indicates the OP is interested in finding just one file.

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Hack was right. However the links provided me with enough material which I could use in another context. By the way which of the approaches is faster and take less mem Hack's or Randem or Static.