>Dear everyone
>How can you make a backup copies of your foxpro program folder during run time when you issue eg., copy file C:\fox\*.* to d:\mycopy\*.* without creating an error "file is in use". I laready tried the "close all" command but it did not work. Thanks

You might try using the Win32 API call SHFileOperation() to perform the copy - it allows for wildcarding, copying of shared files and continuing to copy in the face of copy errors. It's documented in the Win32 API section.