Re: Searching for files in chronological order

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"Larry Smith" <no_spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Doesn't a call to FindFirstFile() and consequitive calls to
FindNextFile()
return files/directories in the same order they've been created? If so
first subdirectory found would be it.

No, it depends on the file system. In NTFS for instance it's returned in
alphabetical order.

Even on a FAT volume, the order returned is not guaranteed to be date
ordered. It's simply the next entry physically in the directory. It will
only be date ordered if no entries are ever deleted or changed.

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