Due to the use of multiple folders to set up the albums needed for this photo directory, I need to retreive the entire path all the way to FileFolder which ends with "Images\".  Since the backslash is in all likelihood not the last one in the path name, I need to know how to rewrite the mid or instr functions to accomidate this.

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Reply from Richard Rost:

You can start from the end of the string containing the path/filename to isolate just the pathname. I would start a loop that looks for that last backslash. Let's say you have:

S = "C:\Users\Richard\Images\something.jpg"

X = len(S)
While X > 0 and mid(S,X,1)<>"\"
   X = X - 1
Wend

Now you have the position of the last "\" in the string. At this point you can cut off the filename, which you can do with:

S = left(S,X)

Now you have just:

S = "C:\Users\Richard\Images\"

If you want to get what's BEFORE the Images\ folder, you can now just chop that off:

S = Left(S,Len(S)-7)

Since you know that "Images\" is 7 characters. Now you're left with:

S = "C:\Users\Richard\"

Hopefully this is what you're trying to find. Now, I haven't fully tested this (it's off the top of my head) and I didn't add any error handling (what if there are no \ in the string?) but it should get you started.