GetSpecialFolder Method

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12/04/2006

Returns the special folder object specified.


object.GetSpecialFolder(folderspec)

Arguments

object
Required. Always the name of a FileSystemObject.

folderspec
Required. The name of the special folder to be returned. Can be any of the constants shown in the Settings section.

Settings

The folderspec argument can have any of the following values:

Constant	Value	Description
WindowsFolder	0	The Windows folder contains files installed by the Windows operating system.
SystemFolder	1	The System folder contains libraries, fonts, and device drivers.
TemporaryFolder	2	The Temp folder is used to store temporary files. Its path is found in the TMP environment variable.

The following example illustrates the use of the GetSpecialFolder method.

var fso, tempfile;

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



function CreateTempFile()

{

   var tfolder, tfile, tname, fname, TemporaryFolder = 2;

   tfolder = fso.GetSpecialFolder(TemporaryFolder);

   tname = fso.GetTempName();

   tfile = tfolder.CreateTextFile(tname);

   return(tfile);

}

tempfile = CreateTempFile();

tempfile.writeline("Hello World");

tempfile.close();

Dim fso, tempfile

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")



Function CreateTempFile 

   Dim tfolder, tname, tfile

   Const TemporaryFolder = 2

   Set tfolder = fso.GetSpecialFolder(TemporaryFolder)

   tname = fso.GetTempName   

   Set tfile = tfolder.CreateTextFile(tname)

   Set CreateTempFile = tfile

End Function



Set tempfile = CreateTempFile

tempfile.WriteLine "Hello World"

tempfile.Close

Applies To:

FileSystemObject Object

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GetSpecialFolder Method

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