Access Excel VBA delete folder if folder exists

This tutorial explains how to use Access / Excel VBA to delete folder if folder exists already.

Access Excel VBA delete folder if folder exists

Suppose you want to write a Macro to export files to a folder. There could be problem if the folder already contains the files you want to export. To avoid this, you probably want to delete the folder and create a new folder before exporting the files. Alternatively, you can also delete all files in the folder.

In order to delete a folder, you can use the FSO Folder Methods.

folderpath = "C:\test"
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
FSO.deleteFolder (folderpath)

To check if folder already exists, use FSO.FolderExists Method

FSO.FolderExists(folderpath) = True

To delete folder if folder exists already, we can combine the above

folderpath = "C:\test"
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If FSO.FolderExists(folderpath) = True Then
    FSO.deleteFolder (folderpath)
End If

Finally to recreate the deleted folder, add createFolder Method at the end of the Procedure

Public Sub delFolder()
    folderpath = "C:\test"
    Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    If FSO.FolderExists(folderpath) = True Then
        FSO.deleteFolder (folderpath)
    End If
    FSO.createFolder (folderpath)
End Sub