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Petershoare
Level: Trainee

Registered: 26-09-2006
Posts: 2

How to extract the "target" property of a shortcut

I have a folder containing shortcuts to other folders around the network.
For each shortcut, I need to follow the "target" to the target folder and then check the "date of last update" of each of the files in the target folder.

However, I can not find out how to extract the "target" from the shorcut.

26-09-2006 at 10:28 PM

humberto
Level: VB Lord

Registered: 13-01-2005
Posts: 246

Re: How to extract the "target" property of a shortcut

' use a (microsoft) scripting rumtime

    Set wshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
     SHORTCUT = "c:\Lotus Notes 6.5.LNK"
    Set oShellLink = wshShell.CreateShortcut(SHORTCUT)
    starget = oShellLink.TargetPath
    MsgBox (starget)

02-10-2006 at 12:23 PM

Petershoare
Level: Trainee

Registered: 26-09-2006
Posts: 2

Re: How to extract the "target" property of a shortcut

Thank you - problem solved.

02-10-2006 at 04:19 PM

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