[AccessD] Access files by date

[Stuart McLachlan]

I'd create a table to store all the filenames and dates with whatever other fields you need for 
new filenames, comments or whatever.  Then a simple function:

Function GetPhotos() As Long
Dim strFName As String
Dim fdate As Date
Dim rs As DAO.Recordset
Dim lngCount As Long
Set rs = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("tblPhotos")
strFilename = Dir$(CurrentProject.payh & "\*.jpg")
While strFilename > ""
     rs.AddNew
     rs!FileName = strFilename
     rs!Filedate = fdate = FileDateTime(CurrentProject.Path & "\" & strFilename)
     rs.Update
     lngCount = lngCount + 1
    strFilename = Dir$
Wend
rs.Close
Set re = Nothing
GetPhotos = lngCount
End Function

Once you have then in the table you can do anything you want with the data, manually or with 
VBA.

On 23 Jul 2017 at 21:36, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> Dear List:
> 
> 
> 
> Having just returned from a 5 day 250 mile bike trek through the
> redwoods of northern California with a group of 0 guys, I have
> volunteered to assemble everyone's pictures and edit them down to a
> director's cut.
> 
> 
> 
> What I have done after editing all their photos (and discarding many)
> is put everyone's pictures in one folder which I can then display by
> date.  Since everyone (hopefully) has a correct date time stamp, the
> pictures of like places and times are now grouped together. 
> 
> 
> 
> So now I would like to loop through these picture in date sequence,
> and rename them RR00010, RR00020, RR0030, etc.  so I can then do a bit
> of rearranging by changing file names. Once that's done I can do a
> final cull of the pictures and, if I need to manually insert any in a
> different place I can do it - like RR00025 would go between RR00020
> and RR00030.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm having a little though, trouble extracting this solution from the
> web. Can someone point me in the right direction?  Can this all be
> done with FSO? My first attempt retrieved the pics in file name order,
> not date/time order. And don't see a way using the Dir command to do
> that.
> 
> 
> 
> MTIA
> 
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> 
> 
> Rocky Smolin
> 
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