>Thank you Naomi, I tried it and it seemed to work at first but I have some problems because of some error message i get.
>I bypass the empty folder problem checking the file before compression, but i still get error telling me that some files could be in use while they are not and I realized that running this code changes file attribute switching them to compressed.
>I tried it under Vista
>Any Ideas ?
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I haven't tested this under Vista, so I don't know.