How to traverse folders

Question

hello everyone,
can anybody help me how to traverse folders using scripting?
I want to compress a folder to a zip file using scripting.
thanks

Answer 1

This will leg a list of all files in each folder and sub folders...
var folders =[];
var topLevel = Folder.selectDialog("Please select top level folder");
//get a list of all sub folders
folders = FindAllFolders(topLevel, folders);
folders.unshift(topLevel);
for(var a in folders){
    //get a list of all files in each folder in turn
    var folderList = folders[a].getFiles();
    //do whatever to each file list
function FindAllFolders( srcFolderStr, destArray) {
var fileFolderArray = Folder( srcFolderStr ).getFiles();
for ( var i = 0; i < fileFolderArray.length; i++ ) {
  var fileFoldObj = fileFolderArray[i];
  if ( fileFoldObj instanceof File ) {  
  } else {
         destArray.push( Folder(fileFoldObj) );
  FindAllFolders( fileFoldObj.toString(), destArray );
return destArray;
To get all files in one folder it would be ...
var topLevel = Folder.selectDialog("Please select top level folder");
topLevel.getFiles();