VB6 Directory\File Maintenance

From: John Walker (JohnWalker_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:19:03 -0800

Here's the situation: there's a file on my local machine which gets backed up
every night to the network server with the name datetime.BAK. In order to
prevent these files from taking up too much space, I was going to write a VB6
app which would run once a week and delete all but 3 of the most recent
files. I was experimenting with the FileSystemObject and Files object, and
the DIR function, but I can't figure out how to make sure that the 3 files to
be retained are the most recent. I know how to delete files, but don't know
how to 'order' by date. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I should go
about this? And if sample code is available, that would be great.

Thanks,
John

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