VBA Code Stops on Downloading File message

[hellfire45]

So I have this code below. It is opening a text file and pasting its contents into excel. Simple.

This particular workbook loops through around 1000 text files and compiles them into a single sheet. The problem is that the code has been stopping at the code below when it opens the file. It'll just sit there on the downloading screen. This only happens about every 20th file but its a big issue. Any idea why this is happening? It's essentially the little box with the bar that opens when the computer is opening up a file. Thanks so much!

Anyway to stop this from happening? I already have application.displayalerts = false at the start of the automations first module.

ChDir strFolderWorkbooks.OpenText FileName:=strFolder & filename_lessext & target_ext _
, Origin:=437, StartRow:=1, DataType:=xlDelimited, TextQualifier:= _
xlDoubleQuote, ConsecutiveDelimiter:=False, Tab:=True, Semicolon:=False, _
Comma:=False, Space:=False, Other:=False, FieldInfo:=Array(1, 1), _
TrailingMinusNumbers:=True

 

[JLGWhiz]

It looks like someone may have altered some code. The 'ChDir' syntax is

ChDir "C:\"

The function followed by the directory path.
In your code snippet, everything after ChDir looks like a 'Workbooks.OpenText' statement, which would probably throw an error because of syntax.
You might be able to fix it by putting the ChDir on a separate line, if really needed, and put the Workbooks.OpenText' statement beneath it on a separate line.
But you would need the path for the ChDir statement.

 

[hellfire45]

Sorry about that, I think I actually just pasted it incorrectly. It is truly as seen below.

ChDir strFolder

Workbooks.OpenText FileName:=strFolder & filename_lessext & target_ext _
, Origin:=437, StartRow:=1, DataType:=xlDelimited, TextQualifier:= _
xlDoubleQuote, ConsecutiveDelimiter:=False, Tab:=True, Semicolon:=False, _
Comma:=False, Space:=False, Other:=False, FieldInfo:=Array(1, 1), _
TrailingMinusNumbers:=True

This code does not error. It just sometimes gets stuck loading these files. The green bar on the "downloading" window fills up and then it gets stuck until I hit cancel. I'm not sure why this happens but I need it to not happen. It only happens like 5% of the time. Any ideas friends?

 

[JLGWhiz]

Sorry about that, I think I actually just pasted it incorrectly. It is truly as seen below.

ChDir strFolder

Workbooks.OpenText FileName:=strFolder & filename_lessext & target_ext _
, Origin:=437, StartRow:=1, DataType:=xlDelimited, TextQualifier:= _
xlDoubleQuote, ConsecutiveDelimiter:=False, Tab:=True, Semicolon:=False, _
Comma:=False, Space:=False, Other:=False, FieldInfo:=Array(1, 1), _
TrailingMinusNumbers:=True

This code does not error. It just sometimes gets stuck loading these files. The green bar on the "downloading" window fills up and then it gets stuck until I hit cancel. I'm not sure why this happens but I need it to not happen. It only happens like 5% of the time. Any ideas friends?

That paricular snippet would not cause a problem, in and of itself, but if you have a large amount of files and the overall code is not written to relieve the memory storage on each iteration, it could just overload the system and it will shut down. Things to consider are being sure to close each source file as it is completed, resetting object varibles to 'Nothing' on each iteration and any other type of memory dump that can be done without losing your essential variables.