can I get the time a text file was created ?

[locutus]

I am writing a shop floor system and need to retrieve a text file every two hours from the NT server. In my program I would like to get the file and check the files time creation. This file called reeldata is created every two hours and the old file is overwritten with the new one. My process will collect the new file just after it has been created, but I would like to double check that the same file is not being retrieved twice ( it may occur that someone delays the process by 15 mins and in this case my process would collect the same file twice )if I could check the time the file was created , store the time then at the next collection I could compare the times. If it is greater than the stored previous time go ahead with the transfer if its the same then don't collect. Comprendy !

How do I get the time stamp of the file from VB !

Many thanks
Locutus

[Toot]

Use the FileSystemObject ("Microsoft Scripting Runtime" reference needed):

Dim fso As New FileSystemObject
Dim fil As File

' example
Set fil = fso.GetFile("D:\Development\OutputInterface\OutputFormatInterface.ini")

Debug.Print "File time: " & fil.DateCreated

HTH!

Toot