Delete a file in vba ms access

In this article. Always the name of a FileSystemObject. The name of the file to delete. The filespec can contain wildcard characters in the last path component.

Boolean value that is True if files with the read-only attribute set are to be deleted; False default if they are not. But how do we do this in VBA is what we will learn in this article. So now we have understood the concept of this topic that we need to delete a file by using VBA macros. In VBA, we have a kill command which is used to delete a file from its location. When we simply delete the file by going through the process of locating the file and right-clicking on it to delete or press the delete button even, the file goes to the recycle bin.

But when we use the Kill command in VBA to delete a file the file is permanently deleted from the computer. Now let us look at the syntax which we will be using to delete a file using VBA. It is as follows:. Watch our Demo Courses and Videos. Always remember that the path of the file should be in the inverted commas. Now to delete a file in VBA we must have its path. How do we get a path of the file? We need to right-click on the file and click on properties which give us different options for the properties of the file once we click on the security tab which is the second number in the tabs we can find the path location under the object name.

Have a look at the screenshot below for reference. I know this question and response are old, just thought I'd add that using Len to test strings and functions that return strings seems to be faster than literal string comparisons in VBA. The reason that Len and LenB , which is even faster are faster than string comparison is that in memory, VB strings are preceded by their length.

On the other hand, using string comparison has much more work to do. Additionally, avoid using "" in VB as it always allocates a new string. Use vbNullString instead as it is a constant and does not uses more memory.

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Delete End if. Brettski Brettski 18k 15 15 gold badges 69 69 silver badges 87 87 bronze badges. This is method I use.. The file won't delete if it's in use, so must have error trap — Gregg Burns.

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