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I was wondering what "ReadOnly" does. VbNormal returns all "ReadOnly" files too, so "vbNormal + vbReadOnly" combination seems to have no effect. But I guess it has to have some function.
Thank you very much for your idea.
Sub test()
x = Dir("C:\Folder\", vbNormal) 'It returns read-only files as well, but vbReadOnly is not given as condition
Do While x <> ""
Debug.Print x
x = Dir
Loop
End Sub
The Dir (and Dir$) functions are pretty ancient (they actually precede Microsoft) and I suspect that parts of them became obsolete long ago, but that the Help/Doc pages are autogenerated (VBA isn't really under active maintenance) so they keep spitting out irrelevant/misleading information.
O'Reilly seems to agree with this (here) saying the vbReadOnly flag (and some others) is a no-op. My suspicion is that the obsolete flags worked back in DOS days, but became disabled when everything was transferred to NT.
