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Bob Phillips[_6_] Bob Phillips[_6_] is offline
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Default Check Drive Space

Here is a routine posted by Jim Rech a while back

Declare Function GetDiskFreeSpaceExA Lib "kernel32" _
(ByVal lpDirectoryName As String, _
lpFreeBytesAvailableToCaller As Currency, _
lpTotalNumberOfBytes As Currency, _
lpTotalNumberOfBytes As Currency) As Boolean

Sub ShowDiskSpace()
Dim MyFreeSpace As Currency
Dim MyTotalSpace As Currency
Dim TotalFreeSpace As Currency
If GetDiskFreeSpaceExA("c:\", _
MyFreeSpace, _
MyTotalSpace, _
TotalFreeSpace) Then
MyFreeSpace = MyFreeSpace * 10000
MyTotalSpace = MyTotalSpace * 10000
TotalFreeSpace = TotalFreeSpace * 10000
MsgBox "Total space on drive: " & _
Format(MyTotalSpace, "#,###bytes") & Chr(13) & _
"Free space: " & Format(MyFreeSpace, "#,### bytes")
End If
End Sub



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HTH

RP

"Charles" wrote in message
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Hi is it possible to write code to check available space
on a drive from Excel?.
TIA
Charles