How do I access hidden files from within vb6.0? It's unlike ordinary files!! VB does not even sense that file in a folder.
As AHMEDYO pointed out, you haven't really given us much detail on what you are trying to do, and how.
For instance, when you say "from within VB" do you mean that you are in the VB6 IDE and just want to use
File | Open to open something like a FRM file, which is hidden? Or do you want your code to open a file, or what? And is the problem actually in opening the file (which from AHMEDYO seems to have done successfully) or in
finding the file? They're not the same thing. Plus, you don't necessarily have to be able to see a file to open it.
While you have a think about the responses so far, you might want to consider the following...
- If using the Dir() function to retrieve file names, you can specify in the attributes argument to include hidden files.
- If using FileSystemObject, here's what the online help says about the Folder object... "Returns a Files collection consisting of all File objects contained in the specified folder, including those with hidden and system file attributes set."
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