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  1. Sep 21st, 2007, 08:34 AM #1
    chris128
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    Find most recently modified file

    Hi Guys,

    I'm looking for a way to find the most recently modified file in a directory using vbscript. Basically I need to find the most recent backup log in a directory and I have found that you can use DateDiff to compare two dates so at the moment im just checking each file in the directory to see if it is less than a day since it has last been modified but then obviously this does not work on a monday...because the backup finishes writing to the log file on Friday so when the script comes to run on Monday there is nothing thats been modified within the last 24 hrs.

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  2. Sep 22nd, 2007, 08:09 AM #2
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    Re: Find most recently modified file

    vb Code:
    1. Set oFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

    2.    Set ofp = ofs.GetFolder("C:\Documents and Settings\peter\My Documents\basic\vbs")

    3.    Set ofiles = ofp.Files

    4.  For Each fi In ofiles

    5.     If newest = "" Then newest = fi.Name: Set newfile = fi

    6.     

    7.     If fi.DateLastModified > newfile.DateLastModified Then

    8.     Set newfile = fi

    9.     newest = fi.Name

    10.     End If

    11. Next

    12.  
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    i do my best to test code works before i post it, but sometimes am unable to do so for some reason, and usually say so if this is the case.
    Note code snippets posted are just that and do not include error handling that is required in real world applications, but avoid On Error Resume Next

    dim all variables as required as often i have done so elsewhere in my code but only posted the relevant part

    come back and mark your original post as resolved if your problem is fixed
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