Vba delete file

By Dheeraj Vaidya. Sometimes when we work in VBA we create some unwanted files, or we have some unwanted files on our computer. How do we get rid of them?

We can simply go and delete each file manually by locating the file and right click on it then, we click on the delete button to delete the file. Or we can press the delete button from the keyboard to delete the file. But how do we do this in VBA is what we will learn in this article. So now we have understood the concept of this topic that we need to delete a file by using VBA macros. In VBA, we have a kill command which is used to delete a file from its location.

When we simply delete the file by going through the process of locating the file and right-clicking on it to delete or press the delete button even, the file goes to the recycle bin. But when we use the Kill command in VBA to delete a file the file is permanently deleted from the computer. Now let us look at the syntax which we will be using to delete a file using VBA.

It is as follows:. Watch our Demo Courses and Videos. Always remember that the path of the file should be in the inverted commas. Now to delete a file in VBA we must have its path. How do we get a path of the file? We need to right-click on the file and click on properties which give us different options for the properties of the file once we click on the security tab which is the second number in the tabs we can find the path location under the object name.

When we are working with large projects, we usually create a lot of intermediate files to support our process. After all the work is done, we need to delete those files to avoid any sort of confusion in the future.

And one scenario is when we usually receive an email. We save attachments for our regular work, or we just want to see the report for that point of time, and later we may need to delete those files. Deleting those files manually will take the time, or we may forget to save, and it will occupy the space on our computer. You are free to use this image on your website, templates etc, Please provide us with an attribution link How to Provide Attribution?

A simple KILL function will delete the folder, specific file, all excel files, etc. The kill method cannot delete read-only files. Path Name: pathname is nothing but the folder path in the computer to delete the files. Note: Pathname can include wildcard characters as well. Asterisk denotes multiple characters, a question mark denotes a single character, and a tilde denotes the identification of a wild card character.

We have seen how we can delete a single excel file and all the excel files. Any additional feedback? In this article. Always the name of a FileSystemObject. The name of the file to delete. The filespec can contain wildcard characters in the last path component. Boolean value that is True if files with the read-only attribute set are to be deleted; False default if they are not.