Loop Through All Subfolders Using VBA
And to complement Rich's recursive answer, a non-recursive method.
Public Sub NonRecursiveMethod()
Dim fso, oFolder, oSubfolder, oFile, queue As Collection
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set queue = New Collection
queue.Add fso.GetFolder("your folder path variable") 'obviously replace
Do While queue.Count > 0
Set oFolder = queue(1)
queue.Remove 1 'dequeue
'...insert any folder processing code here...
For Each oSubfolder In oFolder.SubFolders
queue.Add oSubfolder 'enqueue
Next oSubfolder
For Each oFile In oFolder.Files
'...insert any file processing code here...
Next oFile
Loop
End Sub
You can use a queue for FIFO behaviour (shown above), or you can use a stack for LIFO behaviour which would process in the same order as a recursive approach (replace Set oFolder = queue(1)
with Set oFolder = queue(queue.Count)
and replace queue.Remove(1)
with queue.Remove(queue.Count)
, and probably rename the variable...)
Just a simple folder drill down.
sub sample()
Dim FileSystem As Object
Dim HostFolder As String
HostFolder = "C:\"
Set FileSystem = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
DoFolder FileSystem.GetFolder(HostFolder)
end sub
Sub DoFolder(Folder)
Dim SubFolder
For Each SubFolder In Folder.SubFolders
DoFolder SubFolder
Next
Dim File
For Each File In Folder.Files
' Operate on each file
Next
End Sub