How to select multiple folders at once?

[Chetwood]

Am I missing something again? I want to browse to a folder which has 20 or so subdirs and select 4 or 5 of those. How do I do it? TIA!

[MHz]

There is only what is documented in the help file. Nothing more and nothing less. You have the functions to achieve your goal.

You can use FileFindFirstFile/FileFindNextFile to to get the subfolder names and search within them with the same functions. Or you could use COMs SubFolders method to get the subfolders and then use FileFindFirstFile/FileFindNextFile to search inside them. Another idea is to use ComSpec and the Dir command to get a list of subfolders etc.

Here is a COM example for getting subfolders

Global $cCollection, $oFSO, $oItem, $oFolderPath, $sTotal
$oFSO = ObjCreate('Scripting.FileSystemObject')
If Not @error Then
    $oFolderPath = $oFSO.GetFolder(@WorkingDir & '\')
    $cCollection = $oFolderPath.SubFolders
    For $oItem In $cCollection
        MsgBox(0, '', $oItem.Name)
    Next
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Other examples would be around if you searched the forum. Look at any UDFs in the help file that may ease the effort.