[AccessD] OT - file search results save - Thanks solved

Let me know if you want the VB source code to that .exe.  I'd be more then
happy to send that to you.

Drew

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of O'Connor,
Patricia 
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:17 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT - file search results save - Thanks solved


Thank you 

works like a charm

Patti

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DWUTKA at marlow.com [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 07:32 PM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT - file search results save - Thanks solved
> 
> 
> ROTFL!  Sorry, completely forgot about that!  I normalized the path
> structure that way, because it was much smaller to represent 
> everything with
> it's own ID.
> 
> Put the following function into that db...
> 
> Function GetFullPath(intRootID As Long, strDriveLetter As String,
> strCurrentFolder As String) As String
> Dim rs As Recordset
> Dim intRoot As Long
> Dim strPath As String
> Dim strSQL As String
> Dim strFolderName As String
> intRoot = intRootID
> If intRoot = 0 Then
>     strFolderName = ""
> Else
>     strFolderName = strCurrentFolder & "\"
> End If
> Do Until intRoot = 0
>     strSQL = "SELECT FolderName, RootFolder FROM tblFolders WHERE
> FolderKey=" & intRoot
>     Set rs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset(strSQL)
>     intRoot = rs.Fields(1).Value
>     If intRoot = 0 Then Exit Do
>     strPath = strPath & rs.Fields(0).Value & "\"
>     rs.Close
> Loop
> GetFullPath = strDriveLetter & ":\" & strFolderName & strPath
> End Function
> 
> Then use this query...the last field will be the full path of 
> the file.
> 
> SELECT tblFiles.FileName, tblFiles.FileSize,
> GetFullPath([tblFolders].[RootFolder],[DriveLetter],[FolderNam
> e]) AS Path
> FROM tblFiles INNER JOIN (tblFolders INNER JOIN tblDriveHeader ON
> tblFolders.DriveKey = tblDriveHeader.DriveKey) ON 
> tblFiles.RootFolder =
> tblFolders.FolderKey;
> 
> 
> Drew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of O'Connor,
> Patricia 
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:29 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT - file search results save - Thanks solved
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for all the suggestions
> 
> Mark Matte sent me a db that gave me what I needed. It 
> searched out and
> enter into a table. all the directories in the drive. Then 
> searched for the
> MDB's and put the filename, size, time, and full path into 
> another table. I
> was able to create a nicely formatted report with the full 
> path name, file
> name, size, and date to send to our unit. I tweaked the forms 
> to allow me to
> search for all files or just A specific file extension.
> 
> Drew's Drive Mapper was another good utility. The only 
> problem I had with it
> was getting the full file path to print correctly. If there 
> were several
> levels of subdirectories I had to try to loop through to 
> rebuild the full
> path. I just really didn't have time to play with the code 
> needed to do
> this.
> 
> The karenware powertool was ok but with the db I was able to 
> get a better
> looking report.
> 
> 
> Thanks again
> Patti
> 
>  
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