Comments on: FTP Via VBA

By: Lars

Lars — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:00:00 +0000

Hi
I just found this article explaining how to use wininet.dll. I have always used http://ftp.exe called from at *.bat file.
It works OK, but I also have the problem with host password. I also have problems using UNC patch.
But this code WORKS PERFECTLY. Many thanks to Bilkamm and Haines to sharing this code.

What I though still miss using this code is the response from FTP, espacially if an error occurs. (could be truncation of host dataset, wrong userid/password and so on)

Using the http://ftp.exe I can pipe the result to a textfile, so I can see how each transfer went.

Is it possible to get this information from the wininet.dll solution ?

By: Lee Nash

Lee Nash — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:12:00 +0000

Thanks guys this was extremely useful and im sure to use this code.

Using an ftp client is sometimes a little bit to tedious for me so using your examples up there I can now take a look at putting together something extremely useful for me..

Thanks again...

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:39:00 +0000

Pat: I think this is what I was talking about. http://spreadsheetpage.com/index.php/file/mp3_file_lister/

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:07:00 +0000

Thanks, this is great! But what's that reference to what "Walkenbach did with MP3s" and extended file properties?

I need a way to determine the file type of an image without referring to the file extension. I have some images that are GIFs or BMPs but have a JPG extension. Some shopping carts can handle a badly-named image and will display it anyway, but others will show a broken image even though it does exist.

There are over 50,000 images, way too many to check individually, so if there was some file property I could interrogate that would do the trick.

Anyone know if there's some extended file property that could help with this?

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:09:00 +0000

Wicked, thanks for the code, need for some really old vba app!!!!!

By: Cheval

Cheval — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:55:00 +0000

Using wininet.dll is fine, but how can you perform a resume with that library? Try it, you can’t as the FtpOpenFile performs two calls instead of the proper one.

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:43:00 +0000

Phil: The first four lines in the above procedure are a custom enumeration. You need to include that enum or the code won’t know what gdGifDims is.

By: Phil Simpson

Phil Simpson — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:40:00 +0000

I am developing a website that track the issue of grants to businesses for going "Green". I have to upload several images that we use to show Budget-Issued-remaining sums. Your code seemed to be the best solution. However, when I try to compile the project, I get the following error on the "Function GetGifDim(ByVal sFname As String, ByVal eDim As gdGifDims) As Long" function:
Compile Error: User-defined type not defined
(Help File reference HV01202536)

How do I fix this?

Thanks pws

By: Bob Bridges

Bob Bridges — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:16:00 +0000

Funny you should mention that, Dale; I’ve just been commissioned to automate a procedure that generates some data on the mainframe, saves it to a dataset, then download the data to a PC and join it in an Access query to another table. The mainframe stuff I can do, and I can fumble my way through Access VBA — I’m very much a beginner but getting the hang of it — but I’d almost despaired of the FTP part, fearing I may have to let my users do that part manually.

If you’re interested in comparing notes and figuring this out together, contact me at rhbridg (at sign) attglobal.net.

By: Dale

Dale — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:19:00 +0000

Hi. I've been searching and searching and seaching for VBA code (Access 2003) that I can use to do the following:

transfer FTP files from the mainframe to a local drive adding the extension ".txt" to the local.

so that I can import into Access 2003 and run all the reports needed.

Your example is lenghy and I hope I can make since of it. I'm going to try to use it and I PRAY it works! MANY THANKS TO YOU for taking the time to help others like myself!!! I'm sure it was hard work and time consumming!!!