[RESOLVED] Open Windows Explorer to folder opens Documents folder instead of Folder Path

[sgrya1]

Hi,

When I have spaces and/or unusual characters in a folder path the following code opens the user's Documents folder instead of the intended path.
Is there any way to fix it?

        Dim FolderPath As String = "C:\A,B 1.1"
        If System.IO.Directory.Exists(FolderPath) Then
            Process.Start("explorer.exe", FolderPath)
        Else
            MsgBox("Path does not exist")
        End If

[OptionBase1]

Try passing FolderPath surrounded by double quotes.

Multiple ways of doing this, one option:

Process.Start("explorer.exe", Chr(34) & FolderPath & Chr(34))

[.paul.]

As OB1 suggested, double quotes are needed...

Dim FolderPath As String = "C:\A,B 1.1"
Process.Start("explorer.exe", String.Format("/n, /e, ""{0}""", "C:\A,B 1.1\"))

See command line options here:

https://ss64.com/nt/explorer.html

[sgrya1]

That's great.
Thank you both.

[jmcilhinney]

This was not a programming problem. Process.Start basically just mimics what you can do from the commandline. You should have used a console window to get your commandline right first. If you'd done that then you'd have seen that quotes were required around a path that contained spaces. Of course they would be, given that spaces are the delimiters between arguments.