>>>Or the Shell.Application object can be used to interface with SHFileOperation(). The main problem with this method, however, is that not all machines may have it installed and, if not, it can be a PITA to install.
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>>Thanks for the info, can you point me in the direction of further information about using the Shell.Application object to do this.
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>MSDN Library subscribers have a help file named SHELLCC.CHM, which gives complete documentation on the object. I wrote an article covering some of the features for the VFUG (www.vfug.org) newsletter. The newsletters are available on-line at the site. I think the article appeared the last July's issue.

Thanks, that should help - we've got MSDN library here.