Find a file in any subdirectory on c:\

The If statement is asking if PPMTemp is the emptystring, but your first line is at least always making it "NewTemplate.dot".

Try this instead

Sub Click(Source As Button)
     

     PPMTemp = Dir$("C:\",16)
     If PPMTemp <> "" Then
         PPMTemp = PPMTemp & "NewTemplate.dot"
         Print "Checking of C drive complete"
         Call SendReport
    End If

End Sub

How do you check the subdirectories? You have yo call DIr repeatedly to go through all directories, plus you have to repeat the process per subdirectory. This ain't gonna work. Let me check if there are working examples in EE.

Actually I jumped the gun there.  The Dir$("C:\",16) line just looks to see if the C: drive exists.  To see if a file called NewTemplate.dot exists on the C: drive, you need to use this:

     PPMTemp = Dir$("C:\NewTemplate.dot", 0)
     If PPMTemp <> "" Then
         Print "Checking of C drive complete"
         Call SendReport
    End If

Or are you trying to search the entire C: drive including subdirectories?  For that, you'd have to use a loop or a recursive function.

Yes, I do need to check all directories and subdirectories for the file.

While you might get this problem sorted using the link I gave above, I'd like to ask why you want to know. There might be other solutions to your problem, although that may result in a too funcdamental change in the design of your application. Why do you want to know who has the template on the harddisk? To remove it afterwards?

I ask this because it might be a lot easier to save the template from a Notes template document each time than to discover the whereabouts of the file. It might take seconds, if not minutes, to walk the directory of an 80 Gb disk with a lot of info on it.

Investigating the link provided by sjef_bosman and motivated by qwaletee's comment. I used "Print" on both "FileFound" and "Path" to help me understand the script. This stuff is hard to learn on your own and EE has been a great resource, thank you.

I will be splitting points 50% each for the above mentioned.

My purpose is to use an e mail message to find anyone who saved the template to a local drive when they should be using the template from a controlled workgroup. These people will be targeted for retraining. I have decided to use the recursive routine with the SendReport call as follows:

Sub Click(Source As Button)
      
      Dim PathName As String
      PathName = "C:\Program Files"
      Call ChkPath(pathName)
      
End Sub
Sub ChkPath(Path As String)
      Dim Attr As Integer
      Dim DirFileList List As String
      Dim Count, i As Integer
      Dim MemSubj As String
      Dim FileFound, FileName As String
      
      count = 0    
      FileName = Dir$(Path + "\*.*", 16) ' 16 = include subdirectories
      
                ' collect all relevant entries in directory
      Do While FileName <> ""
                                If FileName <> "." And FileName <> ".." Then
            DirFileList(count) = FileName
            count = count + 1
            End If
            FileName = Dir$
      Loop
      
              ' check each entry to see if it is a directory
      For i = 0 To Count -1
      FileFound = Path + "\" + DirFileList(i)
      Attr = Getfileattr(FileFound)
      If (Attr And 16) And (FileFound <> "." And FileFound <> "..") Then ' this is a directory
            Call ChkPath(Cstr(FileFound)) ' recurse, but why is CStr required???
      Elseif (Cstr(FileFound) =Path+"\CNC Template.dot") Then
      '      Print Path
            Call SendReport
            End If
      Next
End Sub

Sub SendReport
      Dim session As New NotesSession
      Dim db As NotesDatabase
      Dim doc As NotesDocument
      Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
      Set doc = New NotesDocument( db )      
      doc.Form = "Memo"
      doc.SendTo = "Jane Doe"
      doc.Subject = "Template found on C drive"
      Call doc.Send( False )
      
End Sub