Here is a link to the FileSystemObject Reference on Microsoft’s MSDN Network
Learning to use the File System Object (FSO)
The FileSystemObject object is used to access the file system in Visual Basic Scripting. This object can manipulate files, folders, and directory paths. It is also possible to retrieve file system information with this object.
The following code creates a text file (c:\test.txt) and then writes some text to the file:
| dim fs,fname set fs=CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) set fname=fs.CreateTextFile(“c:\test.txt”,true) fname.WriteLine(“Hello World!”) fname.Close set fname=nothing set fs=nothing |
The FileSystemObject object’s methods are described below:
| Method | Description |
| BuildPath | Appends a name to an existing path |
| CopyFile | Copies one or more files from one location to another |
| CopyFolder | Copies one or more folders from one location to another |
| CreateFolder | Creates a new folder |
| CreateTextFile | Creates a text file and returns a TextStream object that can be used to read from, or write to the file |
| DeleteFile | Deletes one or more specified files |
| DeleteFolder | Deletes one or more specified folders |
| DriveExists | Checks if a specified drive exists |
| FileExists | Checks if a specified file exists |
| FolderExists | Checks if a specified folder exists |
| GetFile | Returns a File object for a specified path |
| GetFileName | Returns the file name or folder name for the last component in a specified path |
| GetFolder | Returns a Folder object for a specified path |
| GetParentFolderName | Returns the name of the parent folder of the last component in a specified path |
| GetSpecialFolder | Returns the path to some of Windows’ special folders |
| MoveFile | Moves one or more files from one location to another |
| MoveFolder | Moves one or more folders from one location to another |
| OpenTextFile | Opens a file and returns a TextStream object that can be used to access the file |