[AccessD] Dir Function Oddities and WinXP

I think I will give up on the recursive Dir function and try the api's 
below
and see if there is any difference.  I was blowing up on the System 
Volume Information
directory which is a hidden directory for Restores

Private Declare Function FindFirstFile Lib "kernel32" _
   Alias "FindFirstFileA" _
  (ByVal lpFileName As String, _
   lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Long
  
Private Declare Function FindNextFile Lib "kernel32" _
   Alias "FindNextFileA" _
  (ByVal hFindFile As Long, _
   lpFindFileData As WIN32_FIND_DATA) As Long

Drew Wutka wrote:

>This is just a guess, but I think it's an OS issue.  If you look at your
>favorites in Internet Explorer, you'll see NO extension, even if you have
>this option turned on in your File/Folder settings.  I think this is a quirk
>of the OS.  I wanted to 'open' a .url file, to read it, and to do this, I
>had to copy the file to a 'temp' directory, then go into the dos prompt and
>rename them there.
>
>I had similar problems with .cnf files.  (Structure.cnf is the file that
>FrontPage uses to store your websites 'navigation' structure.  It's a simple
>comma delimited file, but you can't see the extension from Internet
>Explorer.).
>
>I have a feeling that it is a 'hidden' tag within NTFS.  NTFS has lots of
>file 'tags'/properties that you don't have typical access to.  Take a look
>at RoboCopy, (a Resource Kit utility), and you'll see that it can 'tag'
>files with all sorts of extra 'markers'.  What I mean by this, is that most
>'backup' utilities use the Archive flag. That is a pretty standard DOS file
>flag.  However, with RoboCopy, you can set all sorts of flags on a file so
>that RoboCopy can do more complex 'checking' on various files.  It's wierd,
>and personally, I have never bothered to look for documentation on those
>'extra' file tags.
>
>Drew
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MartyConnelly [mailto:martyconnelly at shaw.ca]
>Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:57 PM
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: [AccessD] Dir Function Oddities and WinXP
>
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>I have an Access97 mdb that I use to find duplicate files
>or list all the IE favourites on a disk using the Dir() function in WinXP.
>
>It takes 3 parameters. ie. to find all the url files (IE shortcut 
>Links)  on a disk,
>I type in  parameters "c:\" ,"*","url", it only returns a few ".url" files
>It skips some lower level directories like "My Documents and Settings"
>
>To get all the IE favorites,  I have to specify the lower level 
>directory exactly
>in  parameters "c:\MyDocuments and Settings" ,"*","url"
>
>I can understand, this happening with multi-user settings on WinXP
>but is this change in Dir function behaviour documented anywhere
>as it is different from Win9x
>
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