Scan for .tmp

[MidgetsBro]

I am trying to scan my hard drive for temp files so that I can delete them, but I can't figure out how to do a recursive search across the whole hard drive. I tried using the exampe at www.vb-world.net that uses the API, but when I passed *.tmp instead of *.*, it just added the drive letter to the directory instead of the files on the hard drive. I tried it with numerous extensions, but the only thing that works is *.*. Anybody done somthing similar to this?

Thanks
-Joey

[Mc Brain]

Can you post the example?

[MidgetsBro]

Sure. It's at: http://www.vb-world.net/tips/tip59.html

[Mc Brain]

I proved it, and worked Ok.

[MidgetsBro]

Did you change it from *.* to *.tmp? That is what I did, and it didn't do anything.

[Mc Brain]

Yes... but I didn't change anything in the code, just in the Textbox.

[MidgetsBro]

Originally posted by Mc Brain
Yes... but I didn't change anything in the code, just in the Textbox.

What textbox? This is what I see:

[Mc Brain]

I just copied and pasted the code above the demo project.

[MidgetsBro]

Oh I see what you did. That code doesn't search the whole hard drive. It only searches the direct path that you type in text2. I need to search the whole hard drive. Right now, I am just doing a search with FSO and going two directories deep, but I would like to search every single directory. Thanks for trying though.

[Nucleus]

try here:
http://pages.about.com/vbmakai/getfiles.htm

[MidgetsBro]

Thanks Nucleus, I'll check that out right now.