Ok, I will try this too. It is VFP6 for this project. Maybe in another post I referenced VFP5 for Visual Accountmate LAN3x?

TY

>David,
>Maybe you can forcefully check if it's completed.
>
>

handle=fopen(TargetFile,12)
>if handle<=0
> messagebox(ferror())
>else
> lnSizeWritten=fseek(handle,0,2)
> =fclose(handle)
>endif
>lnSizeWritten=fsize(lcSource)
>

As I remember you were using VFP5. If VFP6 you could also StrToFile() and FileToStr().
>Cetin
>
>
>
>>Cetin,
>>
>>I am coding some statements to force the program to wait 20 seconds after the file zipup and file copies. That should be way more than enough. I hope that helps. I don't have access to the user's machine, so I can't tell what type of settings are being used. I will let you know.
>>
>>Thanks again.
>>