Take a look at WIN API #12730 SHFileOperation. It allows recursive copying files and directories and show a progress.
See Read Directory & Subdirectory Info. Thread #675780 for diferent ways to get a dirrectory tree.

>I need to copy a directory and all its contents (files + any number of levels of subdirectories).
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>This seems to be very difficult in VFP. I can use run xcopy, but this opens a Command Prompt window, and looks clunky.
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>Is there a simple and elegant way to do this? If I could easily read do something like DOS:
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>dir /s
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>into an array, it would then be easy to step through the array, and use copy file. I can't quite see how to do this though...
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>Any suggestions gratefully received...
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>Thanks
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>John