Recursive subfolder file scanning
Ken Ray
kray at sonsothunder.com
Fri Mar 28 17:40:01 EST 2003
David,
I have a Tip on my web site specifically about that:
http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/revolution.htm?_file007
Hope this helps,
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of
> David Kwinter
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 5:49 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Recursive subfolder file scanning
>
>
> In the interest of making a backup utility I've found a
> problem which perhaps someone has delt with before
>
> I would like to specify a folder say:
>
> /Macintosh HD/Users/davidkwi/
>
> And have it identify all files with full paths, then in each
> folder, sub-folder, sub-sub-folder, etc. collect all paths
> for all files regardless of the depth of folders.
>
> Resulting with something like:
>
> /Macintosh HD/Users/davidkwi/Shared/song.mp3
> /Macinotsh HD/Users/davidkwi/Shared/desktoppic.jpg
> /Macintosh HD/Users/davidkwi/Pictures/Vacations/Whistler/mountain.tiff
>
> I'm familiar with "the files" and "the folders" - the
> solution must be some kind of function which gets the files
> and folders for a starting directory then calls itself with
> each subfolder?
>
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