>Greetings -
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>Let's say I want to copy files from within a Visual FoxPro application (6.0) to a destination that may or many not have the same directory structure as the source. For example:
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>If the:
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>SOURCE FILE TO COPY is R:\myAPP\DATA\COREDATA\MAINTABLES\ABC.DBF
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>and I would like to create:
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>S:\myAPP\DATA\COREDATA\MAINTABLES\ABC.DBF, but
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>only the following structure/folders currently exists:
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>S:\myAPP\DATA\
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>What I am looking for is a function that I would use to do the copy from within Visual FoxPro that will look at the above an automatically create the missing folders (\COREDATA\ and \COREDATA\MAINTABLES\), then do the actual copy.
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>Does anyone out there know or have a function like this???

Look at the SHFileOperation() API call, as documented in the Win API section - it can do exactly what you're looking to do.