Novembe 18, 2000 - Folder Operations and Properties

November 18, 2000
Folder Operations and Properties

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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You create an ActiveX File System object by calling ActiveXObject() with a single argument, Scripting.FileSystemObject:

myActiveXObject = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");

You create a folder object by using the ActiveX's GetFolder() method:

myFolder = myActiveXObject.GetFolder("c:\\temp");

Here are the Folder object's properties:

Property	Description
`Attributes`	Refers to the folder attributes
`DateCreated`	Returns the folder's creation date
`DateLastAccessed`	Returns the folder's last-accessed date
`DateLastModified`	Returns the folder's last-modified date
`Drive`	Returns the folder's letter drive
`Files`	Returns the folder's `files` collection, containing all the `file` objects in the folder
`IsRootFolder`	Returns `true` if the folder is the root folder, `false` otherwise
`Name`	Returns the folder name
`ParentFolder`	Returns the folder's parent folder name
`Path`	Returns the folder's long path
`ShortName`	Returns the folder's short name
`ShortPath`	Returns the folder's short path
`Size`	Returns the folder size
`SubFolder`	Returns a `folders` collection of all folders contained in the folder
`Type`	Returns the folder type

Here are the Folder object's methods:

Method	Description
`Copy()`	Copies the folder from its parent folder or the root to another folder or the root
`Delete()`	Removes the folder
`Move()`	Moves the folder from its parent folder or the root to another folder or the root