Hi Paul,

Long time no see. Hope you can make it out to the user group soon.

What version of Fox are you using?

>I have a routine used to backup data to a user specified driver. The code fails to create the directory on a Windows XP Home computer if the user selects the root of any drive to place the backup directory in. In its simplest form, here is the code that fails:
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>  MDISKDRV = GETDIR("C:","Backup Directory")
>  MDISKDRV = MDISKDRV + "BPABCK"
>  MD (MDISKDRV)
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>  COPY FILE *.DBF TO (MDISKDRV+"\*.DBF")
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>The odd thing is that this code works when run interpretively on the computers that it fails on when run in a compiled executable. The only computers that it fails on in our network are our 2 XP Home machines.
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>Any suggestions?
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>Thanks.