Access the File System with Macros

An update to Onetastic brings the ability to access the file system via Macros. This can be useful to import files programmatically into OneNote as well as process contents of local files to modify your OneNote notebooks. You can also automate exporting information from OneNote to files on disk.

Access to file system is provided via File System Functions summarized below. See the documentation for each function for more information.

Checking if a file or folder exists

• FileSystem_FileExists
• FileSystem_FolderExists

Asking the user to pick files and folders

• FileSystem_ShowOpenFileDialog
• FileSystem_ShowOpenFolderDialog
• FileSystem_ShowSaveFileDialog

Creating and deleting files and folders

• FileSystem_CreateFolder
• FileSystem_DeleteFile
• FileSystem_DeleteFolder

Reading and writing files

• FileSystem_ReadFromFile
• FileSystem_WriteToFile

Enumerating contents of a folder and known folders

• FileSystem_GetFolderEntries
• FileSystem_GetKnownFolder

Obtaining the size of a file

• FileSystem_GetFileSize

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