Comments on: The fastest way to find the file in chosen location https://simpleexcelvba.com/the-fastest-way-to-find-the-file-in-chosen-location/ Make your office life easier with simple and fast Excel VBA solutions. Tue, 03 Aug 2021 16:55:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tomasz Płociński https://simpleexcelvba.com/the-fastest-way-to-find-the-file-in-chosen-location/#comment-3567 Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:10:19 +0000 https://simpleexcelvba.com/?p=612#comment-3567 In reply to p.

Correct. But this is beauty of the coding – there is no the only solution for the problem.
This article can be useful for example if You don’t know the whole name of the file You looking for, Dir will not help in such case.

]]> By: Tomasz Płociński https://simpleexcelvba.com/the-fastest-way-to-find-the-file-in-chosen-location/#comment-3557 Wed, 23 Dec 2020 22:44:12 +0000 https://simpleexcelvba.com/?p=612#comment-3557 In reply to Sam.

Try to create separate function to loop through the subfolders and just call it whenever code find any. It will call function in function in function etc as many times as subfolders.

]]> By: p https://simpleexcelvba.com/the-fastest-way-to-find-the-file-in-chosen-location/#comment-3470 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:10:20 +0000 https://simpleexcelvba.com/?p=612#comment-3470 Why are you looping through every file when you can use pattern matching?? Both methods used are overkill and very inefficient.

I have code that can look for files in folder with 80.000+ pdfs and easily find the NEWEST matching file in no time because I match file as pattern. No reason to have Dir() give you EVERY file:

strItem = Dir(strFolder & strPattern)

]]> By: Sam https://simpleexcelvba.com/the-fastest-way-to-find-the-file-in-chosen-location/#comment-3095 Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:36:50 +0000 https://simpleexcelvba.com/?p=612#comment-3095 An excellent method for single folder search, how will you include subfolders?

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