>Hello,
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>Can anyone point me to a thread, or give me some advice on how to send a file to the recycle bin. I was using...
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>Delete File &jfile RECYCLE
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>But it won't delete properly if there are spaces in the name. I found the following code to delete something with spaces, but it deletes the item permanately. There's no recourse if the user makes a mistake. Any help is appreciated.

Check "Name Expression Creation" in Help, though it doesn't say much there. The difference is that a macro substitution, i.e. a & will really be substituted before execution, and if jfile= "c:\path with spaces\file with spaces.txt", your command becomes

Delete File c:\path with spaces\file with spaces.txt RECYCLE

Since the spaces are a part of the syntax, Fox thinks you want to erase c:\path, and then stumbles upon "with", "spaces\file" and other unknown garbage. Name expressions, however, solve this:

Delete File (jfile) RECYCLE

is not substituted; it just means "name is stored in this variable". So whenever you encounter a situation that Fox may want a name of something (a file, window, alias, variable, array, field), you can have that name in a variable surrounded by parentheses. Try it out, it'll save you a lot of trouble.