Mike,
Thanks. I can narrow it down. This is very helpful.
Bill Vlahos
On May 11, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
> If you can narrow down the places to search, you can do this with a shell
> command. You could technically do the whole drive, but it would be way too
> slow to be worthwhile, but if you only have to search a small subset of the
> drive it shouldn't be too bad.
>
> set the defaultfolder to "c:\where\to\start\looking"
> get shell("dir /s filetofind.pref")
>
> So to find all hosts files in the windows tree
>
> set the defaultfolder to "c:\windows"
> get shell("dir /s hosts")
>
> which returns parsable info as similar to the following.
>
> * Volume in drive C has no label.*
> * Volume Serial Number is C44E-B22E*
> *
> *
> * Directory of
> c:\windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-w..nfrastructure-other_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_6079f415110c0210
> *
> *
> *
> *06/10/2009 03:00 PM 824 hosts*
> * 1 File(s) 824 bytes*
> *
> *
> * Total Files Listed:*
> * 1 File(s) 824 bytes*
> * 0 Dir(s) 858,688,282,624 bytes free*
>
>
> A whole drive search with this method takes way too long. I also wonder if
> there is a registry key that will point you the right direction instead.
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't try to search for it if I were you. Just check for the OS and
>> conditionally set the path accordingly. If it could be ANYWHERE, than that
>> begs the question, what is it and who put it there?
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> On May 11, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
>>
>>> I want to modify a prefs file on XP and Windows 7 computers. Since the
>> file could be in different places I can't count on knowing the path to it.
>> How do I execute a search for the file by name in LC and get the path to it?
>>>
>>> The file would only be on the user's hard disk not on any mounted servers
>> so I want to restrict the search to just the user's drive.
>>>
>>> Bill Vlahos
>>>
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