FileLen returns a Long integer but I have a file which is over 7GB in size,
which is beyond the limit of a long integer so I get an overflow error. I
need to extract the file length to calculate details of the contents of the
file. How can I do this?

Grateful for assistance.

Option Explicit
Sub testme()
Dim myFileName As String
Dim FSO As Object

Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
myFileName = "C:\My Documents\giganticfilename.here")

MsgBox Format(FSO.GetFile(myFileName).Size, "#,##0")

End Sub

simonc wrote:

FileLen returns a Long integer but I have a file which is over 7GB in size,
which is beyond the limit of a long integer so I get an overflow error. I
need to extract the file length to calculate details of the contents of the
file. How can I do this?

Grateful for assistance.

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Dave Peterson