Syntax

expression.ScopeFolder

expression A variable that represents a SearchScope object.

Example

The following example displays the root path of each directory in My Computer. To retrieve this information, the example first gets the ScopeFolder object at the root of My Computer. The path of this ScopeFolder will always be "*". As with all ScopeFolder objects, the root object contains a ScopeFolders collection. This example loops through this ScopeFolders collection and displays the path of each ScopeFolder object in it. The paths of these ScopeFolder objects will be "A:\", "C:\", etc.

Visual Basic for Applications 
Sub DisplayRootScopeFolders() 'Declare variables that reference a 'SearchScope and a ScopeFolder object. Dim ss As SearchScope Dim sf As ScopeFolder 'Use a With...End With block to reference the 'FileSearch object. With Application.FileSearch 'Loop through the SearchScopes collection 'and display all of the root ScopeFolders collections in 'the My Computer scope. For Each ss In .SearchScopes Select Case ss.Type Case msoSearchInMyComputer 'Loop through each ScopeFolder object in 'the ScopeFolders collection of the 'SearchScope object and display the path. For Each sf In ss.ScopeFolder.ScopeFolders MsgBox "Path: " & sf.Path Next sf Case Else End Select Next ss End With End Sub
ofv scope scope folder scopefolder scopefolder property

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