"Douglas J. Steele" wrote: >It shocks me that you'd get better performance. As I wrote in Access Advisor >( http://my.advisor.com/articles.nsf/aid/16279 ), typically using VBA is an >order of magnitude faster than using FSO, and using APIs is an order of >magnitude faster than using VBA. (In finding 5491 files on my hard drive, >the API approach took 0.191 seconds, using the Dir function took 1.222 >seconds and using FSO took over 10 seconds). Very interesting. I've almost always used API calls. I've never quite trusted FSO. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Please respond only in the newsgroups so that others can read the entire thread of messages. Microsoft Access Links, Hints, Tips & Accounting Systems at http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/
