Greetings! I’m starting a task decades in the making: I’ve let the files on my various computers and external drives get out of hand, and need to consolidate and organize them. To this end, I want to create a relatively simple database of these files (for each file/folder: name, path, date last modified). I can do this for the contents of a single folder using choosefileDialog and listfiles(), but of course will need recursion to access the contents of folders within folders. I’ve run into two issues here.
The first is: how do you reliably identify a folder as a file? In my sample runs, folder “filenames” as recorded in the listfiles() function do not have a suffix, so I can theoretically look for filenames that lack periods, but that seems like an untrustworthy hack.
The second, bigger issue, which probably is a “my brain is full” moment, is that I cannot work out how to set up a recursive procedure in Panorama that will create records for all the “files” in a folder, and, once I’ve identified the folders within that folder, repeat the process for each of those folders, and so on.
I suspect that this is well-traveled territory, but I would appreciate any guidance on either of these issues!
Thanks,
Alan