Count The Folders On a Hard Drive

[MartinLiss]

What is the quickest way to count the total numbers of folders on a hard drive? If my drive X had the following structure, I'd expect the result to be 3; 1 for "Folder1", 1 for "Folder2" and 1 for "stuff".

x:\Folder1
x:\Folder2\stuff

[makai]

seems like you have to use the findfirstfile findnextfile findclose API's in a recursive manner and count the directories - not counting "." and ".." in each directory

a recursive sub to modify is at:
http://pages.about.com/vbmakai/getfiles.htm

Here you go:

Sub DirMap(ByVal Path As String, List As ListBox)
    On Error Resume Next
    Dim i, j, x As Integer 'All used as counters
    Dim Fname(), CurrentFolder, Temp As String
    Temp = Path
    If Dir(Temp, vbDirectory) = "" Then Exit Sub 'if there arent any sub directories the exit
    CurrentFolder = Dir(Temp, vbDirectory)

    Do While CurrentFolder <> ""


        If GetAttr(Temp & CurrentFolder) = vbDirectory Then


            If CurrentFolder <> "." And CurrentFolder <> ".." Then
                i = i + 1
            End If
        End If
        CurrentFolder = Dir
    Loop
    ReDim Fname(i) 'Redim the array With number of folders
    'now store the folder names
    CurrentFolder = Dir(Temp, vbDirectory)


    Do While CurrentFolder <> ""


        If GetAttr(Temp & CurrentFolder) = vbDirectory Then


            If CurrentFolder <> "." And CurrentFolder <> ".." Then
                j = j + 1
                Fname(j) = CurrentFolder
                List.AddItem Temp & Fname(j)
            End If
        End If
        CurrentFolder = Dir
    Loop


    For x = 1 To i
        Call DirMap(Temp & Fname(x) & "\", List)
    Next
End Sub



Usage

Private Sub Command1_Click()

     Call DirMap("C:\", List1)
     DoEvents
     Msgbox List1.ListCount & " - Folders on C drive."

End Sub

What is the quickest way to count the total numbers of folders on a hard drive?

Forget my way then, Martin, it's not slow, but it's not fast either .