Hi Nancy,
Sorry if I wasn't clear on my discription. I have 3 computers one at home one at work and one portable. I may be working on something on any one of the three as I get a chance. So what I need to do is to keep the most recent copy of files in certian directories on all three computers as I use them. I have to skip around so much that I forget to update something somewhere sometimes. Sometimers I think it's called :,)... I thought that the easy way might be to carry a table on a floppy and compare what was most recent on the other two and perhaps copy the files to a temp dir then zip them to floppies...

WadduThink


>John-
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>So you don't even really need to store your master table on the user's computers, or, if you do want to, the users don't need to update it.
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>Basically, you need to inventory a user's computer, and then merge their inventory with a master inventory of your own?
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>I'm curious about why you are doing this? How will the inventory be used? That would help me understand if you need to update the computer or update YOUR table from the computer.
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>Do you see what I mean? You talk about maintaining the table on the computers, but also mention that you will be the one using the information.
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>>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.