Search drives and store result

[amaru96]

Hi guys, am quite new to VB and just after a guiding hand.

I'm trying to create a program which will search all drives on a PC for a particular file extension (*.bak) and then store the result in a TXT file.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[amaru96]

OK, I managed to work out a way to scan the drives and dump the result into a txt file. The file contains the path of all the *.bak files but now I don't know how to get VB to read the file and delete the files.

I'll keep reading and trying stuff but some help would be great.

[schaefer]

are you using VB6 or VB.net?
in VB6 you have to open files and read them in as strings but in .net you can create a fileinfo object which makes it easier to read and manipulate files.

[amaru96]

I'm using VB6

[amaru96]

OK, managed to dump the results to a file and can now read it.

Thanks for at least replying.