>>>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
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>>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.
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>Ed,
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>Does it also allow to copy an entire folder - with all subfolders?
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>Actually, I am looking for any relatively simple sample to compare API and WSH, for a programming course I am giving.
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Hilmar,

The Shell.Application object has a method to do this. In fact, at this moment I'm backing up a directory tree using it (I do it daily). The Shell.Application object method wraps the SHFileOperation() call that Ed mentions in his post. I wrote an article about it (June, I think) in 2000 for the VFUG newsletter.