This is excellent. I have been looking for a way to get a list of files in a directory into Excel so that I can determine which are new. The contents change over time. I found this here

I put the following code from ask.metafilter.com into the module of my file (using Alt+F11). I can now play with the code to give me the file attributes I need. This code will give you Filename, Size, Created, Modified , Accessed, Full path.

Option Explicit
Sub GetFileList()

Dim strFolder As String
Dim varFileList As Variant
Dim FSO As Object, myFile As Object
Dim myResults As Variant
Dim l As Long

‘ Get the directory from the user
With Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker)
.Show
If .SelectedItems.Count = 0 Then Exit Sub ‘user cancelled
strFolder = .SelectedItems(1)
End With

‘ Get a list of all the files in this directory.
‘ Note that this isn’t recursive… although it could be…
varFileList = fcnGetFileList(strFolder)

If Not IsArray(varFileList) Then
MsgBox “No files found.”, vbInformation
Exit Sub
End If

‘ Now let’s get all the details for these files
‘ and place them into an array so it’s quick to dump to XL.
ReDim myResults(0 To UBound(varFileList) + 1, 0 To 5)

‘ place make some headers in the array
myResults(0, 0) = “Filename”
myResults(0, 1) = “Size”
myResults(0, 2) = “Created”
myResults(0, 3) = “Modified”
myResults(0, 4) = “Accessed”
myResults(0, 5) = “Full path”

Set FSO = CreateObject(”Scripting.FileSystemObject”)

‘ Loop through our files
For l = 0 To UBound(varFileList)
Set myFile = FSO.GetFile(CStr(varFileList(l)))
myResults(l + 1, 0) = CStr(varFileList(l))
myResults(l + 1, 1) = myFile.Size
myResults(l + 1, 2) = myFile.DateCreated
myResults(l + 1, 3) = myFile.DateLastModified
myResults(l + 1, 4) = myFile.DateLastAccessed
myResults(l + 1, 5) = myFile.Path
Next l

‘ Dump these to a worksheet
fcnDumpToWorksheet myResults

‘tidy up
Set myFile = Nothing
Set FSO = Nothing

End Sub

Private Function fcnGetFileList(ByVal strPath As String, Optional strFilter As String) As Variant
‘ Returns a one dimensional array with filenames
‘ Otherwise returns False

Dim f As String
Dim i As Integer
Dim FileList() As String

If strFilter = “” Then strFilter = “*.*”

Select Case Right$(strPath, 1)
Case “\”, “/”
strPath = Left$(strPath, Len(strPath) – 1)
End Select

ReDim Preserve FileList(0)

f = Dir$(strPath & “\” & strFilter)
Do While Len(f) > 0
ReDim Preserve FileList(i) As String
FileList(i) = f
i = i + 1
f = Dir$()
Loop

If FileList(0) <> Empty Then
fcnGetFileList = FileList
Else
fcnGetFileList = False
End If
End Function
Private Sub fcnDumpToWorksheet(varData As Variant, Optional mySh As Worksheet)

Dim iSheetsInNew As Integer
Dim sh As Worksheet, wb As Workbook
Dim myColumnHeaders() As String
Dim l As Long, NoOfRows As Long

If mySh Is Nothing Then

‘make a workbook if we didn’t get a worksheet
iSheetsInNew = Application.SheetsInNewWorkbook
Application.SheetsInNewWorkbook = 1
Set wb = Application.Workbooks.Add
Application.SheetsInNewWorkbook = iSheetsInNew
Set sh = wb.Sheets(1)

Else

Set mySh = sh

End If

With sh

Range(.Cells(1, 1), .Cells(UBound(varData, 1) + 1, UBound(varData, 2) + 1)) = varData
.UsedRange.Columns.AutoFit

End With

Set sh = Nothing
Set wb = Nothing

End Sub