Vbs Tutorial: method-getspecialfolder Method

Getspecialfolder Method

Returns the specified special folder.

Object.Getspecialfolder(Folderspec)

Parameters

Object

Required. The name of FileSystemObject.

Folderspec

Required. The name of the special folder to return. It can be any constant listed in the "Settings" section.

Set

Folderspec can have the following values:

Constant	Value	Description
Windowsfolder	0	Windows folder, which contains files installed in the Windows operating system.
Systemfolder	1	System folder, including library, Font, and Device DriverProgramFile.
Temporaryfolder	2	Temp folder, used to save temporary files. You can find the path of the folder in the TMP environment variable.

Description

The following example illustrates how to useGetspecialfolderMethod:

  dim FSO, tempfileset FSO = Createobject ("scripting. fileSystemObject ") function createtempfile dim tfolder, tname, tfile const temporaryfolder = 2 set tfolder =   FSO. getspecialfolder (  temporaryfolder  )   tname = FSO. gettempname set tfile = tfolder. createtextfile (tname) set createtempfile = tfileend functionset tempfile = createtempfiletempfile. writeline " Hello World "   tempfile. close