Yes, that is an NTFS compressed folder. No problem there. It's the zipped "folders" that it can't copy to.


>well...
>i did the following successfully from the vfp6 command window

>copy file c:\test.txt to c:\windows\$NtServicePackUninstall$\test.txt

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>"$NtServicePackUninstall$" is 1 of those compressed folders i was talking about.
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>>These are 2 very different animals. Try opening a folder (or on your desktop) right-clicking and choosing New and then at the bottom you should see "Compressed (zipped) folder". The problem seems to be that only the GUI knows its not really a folder, but just a special file type and deals with it accordingly. The COPY commands, etc., don't know what to do with it.
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>>>but i don't think that the "XP compressed folder" you refer to is a zipped folder. maybe i am missunderstanding you, but on my xp box in the windows folder there are a bunch of compressed folders, which are not zipped. because of the way i have setup my explorer they apear in blue. when i go to propperties on those folders, in the advanced attribute section, there are options for compress and encryped.
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>>>again, maybe i am missunderstanding you.
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>>>>Hi Gunnar,
>>>>
>>>>I looked at that, but that applies to a different compression than a zipped folder. That's NTFS file compression, not zip compression
>>>>
>>>>Thanks anyways.
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>>>>>hello Fred
>>>>>
>>>>>look in the msdn help at:
>>>>>
>>>>>DeviceIoControl (kernel32.dll)
>>>>>- FSCTL_SET_COMPRESSION
>>>>>
>>>>>and
>>>>>
>>>>>"Compact: Compresses and Uncompresses NTFS Files and Folders"
>>>>>
>>>>>(i have vfp 6, so i don't know if those helps are the same in vfp8)
>>>>>
>>>>>hope that helps.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Can anybody tell me how you would create an XP compressed folder from within VFP?