Hi Nancy,

What I am trying to do is take the files located say in C:\My Documents and all the subdirectories under that and store the name, date, size, attrib, and netid with ADIR() and using the registry for the netid for each computer that I work on. Then when I go to work on say my couputer at home I can tell where the most recent copy of a file is by comparing the files in the table. I figure it is easier to carry around the table on a floppy then zip the files needed across disks and then update another computer. I want to maintain the database on each computer and update it from the floppy. Any suggestions will help as I don't have a crystal clear picture of how to do this yet.

Thanks

>John-
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>Do you update the table while sitting at the workstations?
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>It sounds to me like it's just a lookup table you distributed...it's not maintained at the workstations, or is it?
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>>Hi Nancy,
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>>The data is a list of files that are on each computer. The path and computer name and the file attributes are on the table to be shared. The task is to keep the most current version on all computers of files in selected directories. I figure that it is easier to carry around a floppy and see what needs to be updated on the remote computers. Then I can compress the files to floppies and put the most current version on the target computer. Any light you can shed on this will be a big help.