How can I make subfolders of subfolders? - vba

I have a directory that has 1000's of files. The filename string goes like: ManagerName_EmployeeName_First Assessment.xlsx
but I have a specific type of grouping I need to execute so that I have folders go by ManagerName > Employee Name and then the 5 types of Assessments in the employees folder.
How would I edit this to identify the first _ in the filename (ManagerName) and then make a folder by that ManagerName and then make a subfolder by EmployeeName and then house all five files under that employee in the employee subfolder?
I know you'd need to use a Left(fileName, InStrRev(fileName, "_") > 1) type function to identify the first text string to the left of the first _ but how would I go and create a second subfolder based on the employee under that manager?
Here's a shell of the code I was thinking:
Option Explicit
Sub MoveFiles()
Dim objFSO As Object
Dim objMyFolder As Object
Dim objMyFile As Object
Dim strSourceFolder As String
Dim strDestFolder As String
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
strSourceFolder = "C:\Users\CIB\"
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objMyFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strSourceFolder)
For Each objMyFile In objMyFolder.Files
Do While objMyFile <> ""
strDestFolder = Left(objMyFile.Name, InStrRev(objMyFile, "_") - 1)
If Len(Dir(strDestFolder, vbDirectory)) = 0 Then
MkDir strDestFolder
End If
FileCopy strSourceFolder & "\" & objMyFile.Name, strDestFolder & "\" & objMyFile.Name
Kill strSourceFolder & "\" & objMyFile.Name
Loop
Next objMyFile
Set objFSO = Nothing
Set objMyFolder = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

I've changed your code accordingly to TimWiliams suggestions:
Option Explicit
Sub MoveFiles()
Dim objFSO As Object
Dim objMyFolder As Object
Dim objMyFile As Object
Dim strSourceFolder As String
Dim strDestFolder As String
Dim parts() As String
Dim i As Integer
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
strSourceFolder = "C:\Users\CIB\"
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objMyFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strSourceFolder)
For Each objMyFile In objMyFolder.Files
If objMyFile Is Nothing Then GoTo SkipNext
parts = Split(objMyFile.Name, "_")
strDestFolder = strSourceFolder
For i = LBound(parts) To UBound(parts) - 1
strDestFolder = strDestFolder & parts(i) & "\"
'if path does not exists, create it
If Not objFSO.FolderExists(strDestFolder) Then objFSO.CreateFolder strDestFolder
FileCopy strSourceFolder & "\" & objMyFile.Name, strDestFolder & "\" & objMyFile.Name
Kill strSourceFolder & "\" & objMyFile.Name
strDestFolder = ""
SkipNext:
Next objMyFile
Set objFSO = Nothing
Set objMyFolder = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

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VBA Counter to increment subject lines by 1

I am trying to create a macro which will save out all emails of a selected folder within outlook2010 to my desktop, the code below exports the emails to a specified location but any emails that have the same subject/timestamp are overwritten.
Can I get some advice on how to resolve this issue please.
Option Explicit
Dim StrSavePath As String
Sub SaveAllEmails_ProcessAllSubFolders()
Dim i As Long
Dim j As Long
Dim n As Long
Dim StrSubject As String
Dim StrName As String
Dim StrFile As String
Dim StrReceived As String
Dim StrFolder As String
Dim StrSaveFolder As String
Dim StrFolderPath As String
Dim iNameSpace As NameSpace
Dim myOlApp As Outlook.Application
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Dim mItem As MailItem
Dim FSO As Object
Dim ChosenFolder As Object
Dim Folders As New Collection
Dim EntryID As New Collection
Dim StoreID As New Collection
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set myOlApp = Outlook.Application
Set iNameSpace = myOlApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set ChosenFolder = iNameSpace.PickFolder
If ChosenFolder Is Nothing Then
GoTo ExitSub:
End If
BrowseForFolder StrSavePath
Call GetFolder(Folders, EntryID, StoreID, ChosenFolder)
For i = 1 To Folders.Count
StrFolder = StripIllegalChar(Folders(i))
n = InStr(3, StrFolder, "\") + 1
StrFolder = Mid(StrFolder, n, 256)
StrFolderPath = StrSavePath & "\" & StrFolder & "\"
StrSaveFolder = Left(StrFolderPath, Len(StrFolderPath) - 1) & "\"
If Not FSO.FolderExists(StrFolderPath) Then
FSO.CreateFolder (StrFolderPath)
End If
Set SubFolder = myOlApp.Session.GetFolderFromID(EntryID(i), StoreID(i))
On Error Resume Next
For j = 1 To SubFolder.Items.Count
Set mItem = SubFolder.Items(j)
StrReceived = Format(mItem.ReceivedTime, "YYYYMMDD-hhmmss")
StrSubject = mItem.Subject
StrName = StripIllegalChar(StrSubject)
StrFile = StrSaveFolder & StrReceived & "_" & StrName & ".msg"
StrFile = Left(StrFile, 256)
mItem.SaveAs StrFile, 3
Next j
On Error GoTo 0
Next i
ExitSub:
End Sub
Function StripIllegalChar(StrInput)
Dim RegX As Object
Set RegX = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
RegX.Pattern = "[\" & Chr(34) & "\!\#\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\=\+\|\[\]\{\}\`\'\;\:\<\>\?\/\,]"
RegX.IgnoreCase = True
RegX.Global = True
StripIllegalChar = RegX.Replace(StrInput, "")
ExitFunction:
Set RegX = Nothing
End Function
Sub GetFolder(Folders As Collection, EntryID As Collection, StoreID As Collection, Fld As MAPIFolder)
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Folders.Add Fld.FolderPath
EntryID.Add Fld.EntryID
StoreID.Add Fld.StoreID
For Each SubFolder In Fld.Folders
GetFolder Folders, EntryID, StoreID, SubFolder
Next SubFolder
ExitSub:
Set SubFolder = Nothing
End Sub
Function BrowseForFolder(StrSavePath As String, Optional OpenAt As String) As String
Dim objShell As Object
Dim objFolder ' As Folder
Dim enviro
enviro = CStr(Environ("USERPROFILE"))
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFolder = objShell.BrowseForFolder(0, "Please choose a folder", 0, enviro & "\Desktop\")
StrSavePath = objFolder.self.Path
On Error Resume Next
On Error GoTo 0
ExitFunction:
Set objShell = Nothing
End Function
You can try function
Function FileExists(file as String) as Boolean
If Not Dir(file, vbDirectory) = vbNullString Then
Return True
Else
Return False
End If
End Function
This way you can loop and add a suffix to the filename
[your code]
Dim count as Integer = 0
While (FileExists(file))
count = count + 1
file = dir & filename & count & extension
End While
It will exit the loop as soon as it finds an available name

Excel vba: creating folders doesn't work

I'm trying to create folders in a test folder through vba, but it doesn't work. I can't figure out why - the commands seem legal.
Option Explicit
Sub createFolders()
Dim homePath As String
Dim folderName As String
Dim foldersNumber As Long
homePath = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("setup").Cells(1, 2).Value & "\"
folderName = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("setup").Cells(2, 2).Value
Dim fso As Object
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Dim i As Long
For i = 1 To foldersNumber
If Not fso.FolderExists(homePath & folderName & i) Then
fso.CreateFolder (homePath & folderName & i)
Else
MsgBox ("Folder exits")
End If
Next
MsgBox ("DONE")
End Sub

Saving msg to local folder using illegal characters in file name

I have the following code to save emails from Outlook to a folder on the desktop.
I would like to name the files with the email subjects exactly the way they are in Outlook. I do not want to strip any characters.
I have played around with the macro but I can't fix it. Also would like to remove the time stamp date etc.
Option Explicit
Dim StrSavePath As String
Sub SaveAllEmails_ProcessAllSubFolders()
Dim i As Long
Dim j As Long
Dim n As Long
Dim StrSubject As String
Dim StrName As String
Dim StrFile As String
Dim StrReceived As String
Dim StrFolder As String
Dim StrSaveFolder As String
Dim StrFolderPath As String
Dim iNameSpace As NameSpace
Dim myOlApp As Outlook.Application
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Dim mItem As MailItem
Dim FSO As Object
Dim ChosenFolder As Object
Dim Folders As New Collection
Dim EntryID As New Collection
Dim StoreID As New Collection
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set myOlApp = Outlook.Application
Set iNameSpace = myOlApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set ChosenFolder = iNameSpace.PickFolder
If ChosenFolder Is Nothing Then
'GoTo ExitSub:
End If
BrowseForFolder StrSavePath
Call GetFolder(Folders, EntryID, StoreID, ChosenFolder)
For i = 1 To Folders.Count
StrFolder = StripIllegalChar(Folders(i))
n = InStr(3, StrFolder, "\") + 1
StrFolder = Mid(StrFolder, n, 256)
StrFolderPath = StrSavePath & "\" & StrFolder & "\"
StrSaveFolder = Left(StrFolderPath, Len(StrFolderPath) - 1) & "\"
If Not FSO.FolderExists(StrFolderPath) Then
FSO.CreateFolder (StrFolderPath)
End If
Set SubFolder = myOlApp.Session.GetFolderFromID(EntryID(i), StoreID(i))
On Error Resume Next
For j = 1 To SubFolder.Items.Count
Set mItem = SubFolder.Items(j)
StrReceived = Format(mItem.ReceivedTime, "YYYYMMDD-hhmm")
StrSubject = mItem.Subject
StrName = StripIllegalChar(StrSubject)
StrFile = StrSaveFolder & StrReceived & "_" & StrName & ".msg"
StrFile = Left(StrFile, 256)
mItem.SaveAs StrFile, 3
Next j
On Error GoTo 0
Next i
ExitSub:
End Sub
Function StripIllegalChar(StrInput)
Dim RegX As Object
Set RegX = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
RegX.Pattern = "[\" & Chr(34) & "\!\#\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\=\+\|\[\]\{\}\`\'\;\:\<\>\?\/\,]"
RegX.IgnoreCase = True
RegX.Global = True
StripIllegalChar = RegX.Replace(StrInput, "")
ExitFunction:
Set RegX = Nothing
End Function
Sub GetFolder(Folders As Collection, EntryID As Collection, _
StoreID As Collection, Fld As MAPIFolder)
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Folders.Add Fld.FolderPath
EntryID.Add Fld.EntryID
StoreID.Add Fld.StoreID
For Each SubFolder In Fld.Folders
GetFolder Folders, EntryID, StoreID, SubFolder
Next SubFolder
ExitSub:
Set SubFolder = Nothing
End Sub
Function BrowseForFolder(StrSavePath As String, _
Optional OpenAt As String) As String
Dim objShell As Object
Dim objFolder ' As Folder
Dim enviro
enviro = CStr(Environ("USERPROFILE"))
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFolder = objShell.BrowseForFolder(0, "Please choose a folder", _
0, enviro & "C:\Temp\Folders")
StrSavePath = objFolder.self.Path
On Error Resume Next
On Error GoTo 0
ExitFunction:
Set objShell = Nothing
End Function
an alternative approach if you absolutely want to retain the original email unaltered is to create a new email message to yourself with the original email saved as an attachment. Save the new email with a corrected subject to avoid windows naming errors, it will retain a link to the unaltered original.
It's a few extra steps but you should be able to automate those if you insist on retaining the original email unaltered.
Its bad idea like Tim said, but if that is what you want to do then modify your j loop to something like this...
For j = 1 To SubFolder.Items.Count
Set mItem = SubFolder.Items(j)
StrSubject = mItem.Subject
StrSubject = StrSaveFolder & StrSubject & ".msg"
mItem.SaveAs StrSubject, 3
Next j
Good Luck...

Copy all excel files from one location to another

I have written the below script which creates a folder in a given location if it doesn't exist which is named after a cell in the workbook.
Dim fso As Object
Dim fldrname As String
Dim fldrpath As String
Dim sFileType As String
Dim sSourcePath As String
Dim Destination As String
Set fso = CreateObject("scripting.filesystemobject")
sSourcePath = "\\INSURANCE\IT\FileData\Computers\DIPS\"
fldrname = Worksheets("Applications").Range("A2").Value
fldrpath = "\\INSURANCE\IT\FileData\Computers\DIPS\DIP Archive\" & fldrname
If Not fso.folderexists(fldrpath) Then
fso.createfolder (fldrpath)
End If
End If
I'm now trying to copy all .xlsm files in sSourcePath to the newly created location fldrpath & \ fldrname yet all attempts fail. I'm still fairly new to VBA so any help would be appreciated.
I have heard of .copyfile but i'm not sure how to utilise this in this example.
Thank you in advance.
I do this without filesystemobject.
Sub copyfiles()
Dim source_file As String, dest_file As String
Dim source_path As String, dest_path As String
Dim i As Long, file_array As Variant
source_path = "\\INSURANCE\IT\FileData\Computers\DIPS"
dest_path = "\\INSURANCE\IT\FileData\Computers\DIPS\DIP Archive"
source_file = Dir(source_path & "\" & "*.xlsm")
Do Until source_file = ""
If Not IsArray(file_array) Then
ReDim file_array(0) As Variant
Else
ReDim Preserve file_array(UBound(file_array) + 1) As Variant
End If
file_array(UBound(file_array)) = source_file
source_file = Dir
Loop
'If new folder is not existed, create it.
If Dir(dest_path, 16) = "" Then MkDir dest_path '16=vbDirectory
For i = LBound(file_array) To UBound(file_array)
FileCopy source_path & "\" & file_array(i), dest_path & "\" & file_array(i)
Next i
End Sub
My take on that
Sub copyFiles()
Dim fldrname As String, fldrpath As String, sFileType As String
Dim sSourcePath As String, Destination As String
Dim fso As Object, fFolder As Object, fFile As Object
Set fso = CreateObject("scripting.filesystemobject")
sSourcePath = "\\SourcePath" '"\\INSURANCE\IT\FileData\Computers\DIPS\"
fldrname = "data\" 'Worksheets("Applications").Range("A2").Value
fldrpath = "\\SourcePath\Archive\" & fldrname '"\\INSURANCE\IT\FileData\Computers\DIPS\DIP Archive\" & fldrname
If Not fso.folderexists(fldrpath) Then
fso.createfolder (fldrpath)
End If
Set fFolder = fso.GetFolder(sSourcePath)
For Each fFile In fFolder.Files
'If Not (fso.FileExists(fldrpath & fFile.Name)) Then fFile.Copy fldrpath, Overwritefiles:=False
fFile.Copy fldrpath, Overwritefiles:=True
Next fFile
End Sub

Move emails from subfolder to hard drive [closed]

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I am curious to know how to move emails from a specific subfolder to my hard drive. Basically, my inbox has about 20 subfolders. I want to be able to move all the emails from subfolder1 to my hard drive.
Is there a macro to specifically go to that folder and move all the emails onto my hard drive? Granted I do want to keep all the emails in .msg rather than being a .txt file.
I bielive you can develop a VBA macro or add-in to get the job done. See Getting Started with VBA in Outlook 2010 to get started.
The SaveAs method of the MailItem class saves the Microsoft Outlook item to the specified path and in the format of the specified file type. If the file type is not specified, the MSG format (.msg) is used. The file type to save can be one of the following OlSaveAsType constants: olHTML, olMSG, olRTF, olTemplate, olDoc, olTXT, olVCal, olVCard, olICal, or olMSGUnicode. For example:
Sub SaveAsMSG()
Dim myItem As Outlook.Inspector
Dim objItem As Object
Set myItem = Application.ActiveInspector
If Not TypeName(myItem) = "Nothing" Then
Set objItem = myItem.CurrentItem
strname = objItem.Subject
'Prompt the user for confirmation
Dim strPrompt As String
strPrompt = "Are you sure you want to save the item? " & _
"If a file with the same name already exists, " & _
"it will be overwritten with this copy of the file."
If MsgBox(strPrompt, vbYesNo + vbQuestion) = vbYes Then
objItem.SaveAs Environ("HOMEPATH") & "\My Documents\" & strname & ".msg", olMSG
End If
Else
MsgBox "There is no current active inspector."
End If
End Sub
This should allow you to select outlook folder and hard drive folder, All emails in that folder and all sub folders will be saved to your HD
Option Explicit
Sub SaveMsgToFolders()
Dim i, j, n As Long
Dim sSubject As String
Dim sName As String
Dim sFile As String
Dim sReceived As String
Dim sPath As String
Dim sFolder As String
Dim sFolderPath As String
Dim SaveFolder As String
Dim Prompt As String
Dim Title As String
Dim iNameSpace As NameSpace
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Dim olmItem As MailItem
Dim FSO, ChosenFolder As Object
Dim Folders As New Collection
Dim EntryID As New Collection
Dim StoreID As New Collection
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set olApp = Outlook.Application
Set iNameSpace = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set ChosenFolder = iNameSpace.PickFolder ' // Chose Outlook Folder
If ChosenFolder Is Nothing Then
GoTo ExitSub:
End If
Prompt = "Please enter the path to save all the emails to."
Title = "Folder Specification"
sPath = BrowseForFolder
If sPath = "" Then
GoTo ExitSub:
End If
If Not Right(sPath, 1) = "\" Then
sPath = sPath & "\"
End If
Call GetFolder(Folders, EntryID, StoreID, ChosenFolder)
For i = 1 To Folders.Count
sFolder = StripIllegalChar(Folders(i))
n = InStr(3, sFolder, "\") + 1
sFolder = Mid(sFolder, n, 256)
sFolderPath = sPath & sFolder & "\"
SaveFolder = Left(sFolderPath, Len(sFolderPath) - 1) & "\"
If Not FSO.FolderExists(sFolderPath) Then
FSO.CreateFolder (sFolderPath)
End If
Set SubFolder = olApp.Session.GetFolderFromID(EntryID(i), StoreID(i))
On Error Resume Next
For j = 1 To SubFolder.Items.Count
Set olmItem = SubFolder.Items(j)
sReceived = ArrangedDate(olmItem.ReceivedTime)
sSubject = olmItem.Subject
sName = StripIllegalChar(sSubject)
sFile = SaveFolder & sReceived & "_" & sName & ".msg"
sFile = Left(sFile, 256)
olmItem.SaveAs sFile, 3
Next j
On Error GoTo 0
Next i
ExitSub:
End Sub
Function StripIllegalChar(StrInput)
Dim RegX As Object
Set RegX = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
RegX.Pattern = "[\" & Chr(34) & "\!\#\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\=\+\|\[\]\{\}\`\'\;\:\<\>\?\/\,]"
RegX.IgnoreCase = True
RegX.Global = True
StripIllegalChar = RegX.Replace(StrInput, "")
ExitFunction:
Set RegX = Nothing
End Function
Function ArrangedDate(sDateInput)
Dim sFullDate As String
Dim sFullTime As String
Dim sAMPM As String
Dim sTime As String
Dim sYear As String
Dim sMonthDay As String
Dim sMonth As String
Dim sDay As String
Dim sDate As String
Dim sDateTime As String
Dim RegX As Object
Set RegX = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
If Not Left(sDateInput, 2) = "10" And _
Not Left(sDateInput, 2) = "11" And _
Not Left(sDateInput, 2) = "12" Then
sDateInput = "0" & sDateInput
End If
sFullDate = Left(sDateInput, 10)
If Right(sFullDate, 1) = " " Then
sFullDate = Left(sDateInput, 9)
End If
sFullTime = Replace(sDateInput, sFullDate & " ", "")
If Len(sFullTime) = 10 Then
sFullTime = "0" & sFullTime
End If
sAMPM = Right(sFullTime, 2)
sTime = sAMPM & "-" & Left(sFullTime, 8)
sYear = Right(sFullDate, 4)
sMonthDay = Replace(sFullDate, "/" & sYear, "")
sMonth = Left(sMonthDay, 2)
sDay = Right(sMonthDay, Len(sMonthDay) - 3)
If Len(sDay) = 1 Then
sDay = "0" & sDay
End If
sDate = sYear & "-" & sMonth & "-" & sDay
sDateTime = sDate & "_" & sTime
RegX.Pattern = "[\:\/\ ]"
RegX.IgnoreCase = True
RegX.Global = True
ArrangedDate = RegX.Replace(sDateTime, "-")
ExitFunction:
Set RegX = Nothing
End Function
Sub GetFolder(Folders As Collection, EntryID As Collection, StoreID As Collection, Fld As MAPIFolder)
Dim SubFolder As MAPIFolder
Folders.Add Fld.FolderPath
EntryID.Add Fld.EntryID
StoreID.Add Fld.StoreID
For Each SubFolder In Fld.Folders
GetFolder Folders, EntryID, StoreID, SubFolder
Next SubFolder
ExitSub:
Set SubFolder = Nothing
End Sub
Function BrowseForFolder(Optional OpenAt As String) As String
Dim ShellApp As Object
Set ShellApp = CreateObject("Shell.Application"). _
BrowseForFolder(0, "Please choose a folder", 0, OpenAt)
On Error Resume Next
BrowseForFolder = ShellApp.self.Path
On Error GoTo 0
Select Case Mid(BrowseForFolder, 2, 1)
Case Is = ":"
If Left(BrowseForFolder, 1) = ":" Then
BrowseForFolder = ""
End If
Case Is = "\"
If Not Left(BrowseForFolder, 1) = "\" Then
BrowseForFolder = ""
End If
Case Else
BrowseForFolder = ""
End Select
ExitFunction:
Set ShellApp = Nothing
End Function