Whole folder worth of projects...

Hi all,

Here's the thing. A few years ago I did a trawl through all our gINT projects to pull out a list of all projects / Points that had National Grid co-ords. This was done on a text table report, key set to Project?. Upon output, I seem to remember that I could point gINT at a folder on my HD and either that was eonugh and gINT would load all the projects in the folder (by load I mean work through) or I selected all the projects in the folder.

Someone asked a question about doing that type of thing on here recently and I explained about how I used to do it (bearing in mind I last did this a good few years ago). The person has emailed me asking if they need to populate the multi-project tab list with each individual file or was there another way. I thought they were doing something wrong, so I hunted out the old Text Table report and ran it, only to be presented with a project manager window to choose all the projects from. Obviously the Project Manager holds only a tiny proportion of our thousands on gINT projects. Needless to say, this is about as much use as a chocolate Tea Pot. By the time I've added every single project from the folder to the Project Manager I could have opened up most of the projects manually and exported the data bit at a time.

My question is, is there a way of pre-populating the Project Manager (don't think so) or is there a way of using the "old" (for old, see the word "better") method of pointing gINT at a whole folder full of files and bypassing the project manager?

Miles