Search for location of a file

[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.

[Radjesh Klauke]

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

[Hack]

This will also work without the overhead of the FSO

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

[Radjesh Klauke]

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

[Hack]

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

Then you wouldn't use that API.

However, the original question was

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

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

[Mr.Mac]

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.

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

[VBFnewcomer]

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

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

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.