How to get Latest file from a Folder

[visuman]

Hi,

      I would like to access latest file in a folder based upon time stamp in the file properties. Can anybody help me in this regard.

Regards,

Visuman 

[GerdW]

Hi visuman,

use ListFolder to get all filenames. Then use "File/Dir-Info" to get the "Last Changed" timestamp for each file. Sort by timestamp to find the latest file...

[Bart_Aerts]

Hey,

I hope this solves your problem.

If you have any questions, just ask them 🙂

Greetz, Bart

P.S. the solution is in the attachment 🙂

[GerdW]

Hi Bart,

- you don't need ArraySize in your snippet, autoindexing will do the job.

- using the clean up button before posting might be a good idea too. 😄

[Bart_Aerts]

Cleanup button was used, and you're right about the ArraySize, just common practice from other programming languages 🙂

[Thoric]

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@Bart_Aerts wrote:
Cleanup button was used,

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I could well believe it. Clean up can commonly un-clean a diagram! 

note that your output "element" will just be the latest filename, not the filepath. As you don't provide the path as an input, but generate it internally from a dialog, the path is therefore lost when calling this code as a subVI, so you should also provide the root path as an output. And rename 'element' to 'filename' and 'max value' to 'timestamp' perhaps.