We have been talking it over and have about decided to use your original suggestion and provide a work-around for those clients who are unable to CREATEOBJECT("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Thanks for your help.

>>>>I need a way to quickly determine the total size of a folder (including all files & subfolders) before attempting to copy it. If I knew the size in bytes I could subtract that from diskspace() to see if there is enough room.
>>>>I'm sure this is a common issue. Anybody have a neat solution?
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>>>Try
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>>>loFSO = CREATEOBJECT("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>>>loFolder = loFSO.GetFolder('c:\test')
>>>?loFolder.Size

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>>That is excellent. Works great and fast. Unfortunately I am not supposed to use windows scripting. Anything from the API crowd?
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>Looks like you asked a hard question. Apart from my original suggestion or an idea of using Filer or ADIR() with recursion I could not find anything and I made multiple searches.
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>Nothing good so far :(