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11/12/1998 11:54:42
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00166520
Message ID:
00166621
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15
>Does anyone have a class/program/whatever for handling things like deleting files and such?
>
>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.

There are ActiveX solution available if you have the Windows Scripting Host installed; one of the most useful things in there is the Scripting.FileSystemObject, which has a ton of useful methods for folder and file manipulation. You can install the Windows Scripting Host easily enough in an installation; the executable WSH.EXE available from Microsoft will install it on systems that don't already have it (Windows scripting host is built into Win98, WinNT with Option Pack 4, and WinNT5/Win2000.)

Alternatively, you can write VFP-only code to use ADIR(), ERASE, and RMDIR to recursively copy and delete.

>
>No luck finding such a thing in the files section.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Michelle
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