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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Look at All the Microsoft Office Documents in a Folder?

April 12, 2008 Apr 12, 2008 04/12/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I am trying to use Windows PowerShell to look at files on my computer; what I want to do is get back a history (that is, the last time a document was accessed) for all the Microsoft Office files in a folder and its subfolders. However, I’m not having much luck. Any ideas would be appreciated.-- KM(image) (image...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Check to See if Two Lines of Text are in a File and, If They Aren’t, Append Those Lines to the File?

April 8, 2008 Apr 8, 2008 04/8/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! Let me first say that your stuff is great. Really helpful scripts mixed with great humor; you guys are pissa's (Australian slang for “funny”). I have a script that needs to open a file and check to see if two lines of text are in that file. If they are, then I leave the file alone; if they aren’t, I need to ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Retrieve Information About All the Shortcut Files in a Folder?

March 29, 2008 Mar 29, 2008 03/29/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a folder with about 1800 shortcuts in it. I need to retrieve the file name and the target for each of these shortcuts in order to import that information into a database. Do you have any idea how I can retrieve this information for each and every shortcut file in a folder?-- JK(image) (image) (image) HeYy...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Incrementally Rename Files Based on the File Creation Date?

March 28, 2008 Mar 28, 2008 03/28/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I am trying to get my photos sorted in chronological order, even though – because they come from different cameras – they have different names. For example, one name type starts with DSC followed by a sequential number issued by one camera; another name type starts with IMG followed by a different sequential ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Change the Last-Accessed Date of a File to Match Its Last-Modified Date?

March 27, 2008 Mar 27, 2008 03/27/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the last-accessed date for all the files in a folder? I want the last-accessed date to match the date and time that the file was last modified.-- GW(image) (image) (image) Hey, GW. Say, did you realize that yesterday was Opening Day for Major League Baseball? If you didn’t, well, don’t feel ...