Script stops on protected files such as system files - vba

Question

This code stops after a while due to protected files such as system files, "Permission Denied".
Is there a way to modify the code below so that it can handle such protected files or bypass them?
Set objFS=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
WScript.Echo Chr(34) & "Full Path" &_
Chr(34) & "," & Chr(34) & "File Size" &_
Chr(34) & "," & Chr(34) & "File Date modified" &_
Chr(34) & "," & Chr(34) & "File Date Created" &_
Chr(34) & "," & Chr(34) & "File Date Accessed" & Chr(34)
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
strFolder = objArgs(0)
Set objFolder = objFS.GetFolder(strFolder)
Go (objFolder)
Sub Go(objDIR)
If objDIR <> "\System Volume Information" Then
For Each eFolder in objDIR.SubFolders
Go eFolder
Next
End If
For Each strFile In objDIR.Files
WScript.Echo Chr(34) & strFile.Path & Chr(34) & "," &_
Chr(34) & strFile.Size & Chr(34) & "," &_
Chr(34) & strFile.DateLastModified & Chr(34) & "," &_
Chr(34) & strFile.DateCreated & Chr(34) & "," &_
Chr(34) & strFile.DateLastAccessed & Chr(34)
Next
End Sub
Then call it from the command line
like this.
c:\test> cscript //nologo myscript.vbs "c:\" > "C:\test\Output.csv"

Answer 1

I've simplified your code (based upon your duplicate question) and without trying to handle errors I can see a problem: objDIR.SubFolders fails when one of the subfolders (such as \System Volume Information) doesn't have permissions to be viewed! You need to use another method on Folder to enumerate the foldernames, combine them with the existing path and then trap the error .GetFolder may cause when you don't have permissions. (I don't have time to code that solution at the moment.)
Option Explicit
Dim objFS
Dim objArgs
Dim strFolder
Dim objFolder
Set objFS = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine """Full Path"",""File Size""," & _
"""File Date modified"",""File Date Created""," & _
"""File Date Accessed"""
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
strFolder = objArgs(0)
Set objFolder = objFS.GetFolder(strFolder)
Go objFolder
Sub Go(objDIR)
Dim strFile
On Error Resume Next
For Each eFolder in objDIR.SubFolders
Go eFolder
Next
For Each strFile In objDIR.Files
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine """" & strFile.Path & """,""" & _
strFile.Size & """,""" & _
strFile.DateLastModified & """,""" & _
strFile.DateCreated & """,""" & _
strFile.DateLastAccessed & """"
Next
End Sub

Answer 2

VBScript allows error trapping, though not as gracefully as VBA. Try the script below.
On Error Resume Next
'[ ... code ... ]
Dim test_result, divisor
divisor = 1 '' No error
'divisor = 0 '' raise error #11
'divisor = "zero" '' raise a different error
test_result = 2/divisor
If Err.Number = 11 then ''This line must appear at the point error is raised
MsgBox "Handled Error: " & Err.Description
ElseIf Err.Number > 0 then
MsgBox "Error: " & Err.Number & " " & Err.Description
Err.Clear ''if you wanted to proceed clean from here
End If
MsgBox "Result: " & test_result

Answer 3

ensure the process has permissions. see

Answer 4

You can ignore script errors in VBScript by adding
On Error Resume Next
before the part of the code where you want to ignore errors.
The statement to restore the default behavior is
On Error GoTo 0
And just a remark: Method calls in VB and VBScript don't use parenthesis if they appear as a single statement. So the line Go (objFolder) should be replaced by Go objFolder.