File Search

Is there anyway to search to whole hard drive for a specific file and return its path? Ive Tried SearchPath but that just looks in the sysdirs. Any info would be helpfull.

I think FindFirst, FindNext and FindClose should do the trick.

Could somebody please give more info or an example how to do it using FindFirst? I am having the same problem as mcollins. I need to search the whole hard drive for a specific file and return its path.

FindFirst does not return the path of the file that it is searching for. How can I find the path of the specific file that I am searching for on the hard drive?

Have you tried looking in the examples folder of nsis? If I am correct there is an example script that searches the program files folder for folders (not sure if it will search for files - it should work).

Name "Output"

OutFile "Output.exe"



!include "FileFunc.nsh"

!insertmacro Locate



##Example (Find one file):##

Section

	${Locate} "C:\" "/L=F /M=RPC DCOM.rar /S=1K" "Example1"

	# 'RPC DCOM.rar' file in all drive 'C:\' with size 1 Kb or more



	IfErrors 0 +2

	MessageBox MB_OK "Error" IDOK +2

	MessageBox MB_OK "$$R0=$R0"

SectionEnd



Function Example1

	# $R9="C:\ftp\files\RPC DCOM.rar"

	# $R8="C:\ftp\files"

	# $R7="RPC DCOM.rar"

	# $R6="5"

	StrCpy $R0 $R9



	MessageBox MB_YESNO '$R0$\n$\nFind next?' IDYES +2

	StrCpy $0 StopLocate



	Push $0

FunctionEnd

Script uses header (for NSIS 2.07 or below):

There is another function by Afrow UK if you don't like callbacks 🙂 :
FindIt: Simple search for file / directory