Raeding in metadata from Windows folders

[Raiko]

Hi,

I have the tedious task to count folders and subfolders in order to determine a certain count. Does anybody have a sheet, preferably in MC15, that can count folders and access the date of creation of said folder?

Thanks in advance

Raiko

[MikeArmstrong]

Would something like this work for the first part?

[Raiko]

Hello Mike,

thanks for responding. Can you give me an instruction on how to use your function?

Raiko

[MikeArmstrong]

Hi Raiko,

The fuction was actually posted a while back by Philip Oakley. However, you will need to change the path "C:\YOUR PATH" to point at the folder were you want to count the files. Then you will be able to progress from there.

[Raiko]

Mike, that much I understood. my problem however, is to count folders and not files. Therefore I can't work with extensions.

Any idea how to adapt the worksheet?

[MikeArmstrong]

RaikoRaiko Milanovic wrote:

Mike, that much I understood. my problem however, is to count folders and not files. Therefore I can't work with extensions.

Any idea how to adapt the worksheet?

Sorry Raiko, try the second scripted object in the attached worksheet.

[MikeArmstrong · Accepted solution]

A little addition to help. I have added in a component from Richards collection which will allow you to select where folder and the relative path will be returned.

[Raiko]

Thank you Mike. That did the trick

Raiko

[MikeArmstrong]

No problem. I can't take the credit for developing them, just reciting them

I can't find a component which indicates when a folder is created, but there is a component which calls up when a file is created if that will help.