Name
FileSystemObject.GetDriveName Method
Syntax
oFileSysObj.
GetDriveName (Path
)
-
oFileSysObj
Use: Required
Data Subtype: FileSystemObject object
Any object variable returning a FileSystemObject object.
-
Path
Use: Required
Data Subtype: String
A path specifier.
Return Value
A Variant of subtype String.
Description
Returns the drive name of a given path.
Rules at a Glance
If the drive name can’t be determined from the given path, a zero-length string (“”) is returned.
Programming Tips & Gotchas
For local and mapped drives, GetDriveName appears to look for the colon as a part of the drive’s name to determine whether a drive name is present. For network drives, it appears to look for the computer name and drive name.
GetDriveName is really a string-parsing method rather than a filesystem method. In particular, it does not verify that the drive name that it extracts from
Path
actually exists on the system.Path
can be a network drive or share.
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