That's more in depth than I want to get. I don't know how to get subdirectories. There's no user interaction. I just need to back up the dir and delete it. I don't need anything from the user.

If no one has anything, I guess I'll just do it manually.

Thanks,

-Michelle


>You could do everything you want to do with DOS commands I guess. Combined with some VFP commands...you could write your own class.
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>I actually have a question: VFP has a DIR command, but it doesn't list subdirectories. Do you know how to list subdirectories with a VFP command?
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>I know how to get around this with DOS commands and then parsing a text file, but I am wondering if there is something similar.
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>I don't know how much control you want the user to have. FILER gives the user a lot of control I think...I haven't looked into it too much though...
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>Joe
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>>Does anyone have a class/program/whatever for handling things like deleting files and such?
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>>I need to copy a directory with files and other directories to a backup directory, then delete the dir and all the stuff in it. I can do it by going to each directory and deleting and then removing each dir, but I was hoping there was a simpler way.
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>>No luck finding such a thing in the files section.
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>>Thanks,
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>>-Michelle