Help requested

[skywalker]

What windows function would I use to copy files to other directories using wildcards. I want it to copy them even if they aren't present or update ones that are.

Thanks.

[MusicalMike]

Never mind, this reply was irrelivent. I feel kind of stupid right now.  :green

[hutch--]

In direct API code you will not get that capacity, what you have is API calls like CopyFile/Ex which will copy single files at a time from one location to the other.

The way a task like this is normally done is to write a recursive file and directory procedure that climbs up and down a directory tree and with the target, it creates a directory on the new tree as it find them in the old tree and it copies one file at a time as it finds them to the correct directory in the target tree.

I know there is a capacity to do this in VBS scripting but unless there is one of the newer API in something like a Shell library, I don't know of a tree copy API available.

[skywalker]

In direct API code you will not get that capacity, what you have is API calls like CopyFile/Ex which will copy single files at a time from one location to the other.

The way a task like this is normally done is to write a recursive file and directory procedure that climbs up and down a directory tree and with the target, it creates a directory on the new tree as it find them in the old tree and it copies one file at a time as it finds them to the correct directory in the target tree.

I know there is a capacity to do this in VBS scripting but unless there is one of the newer API in something like a Shell library, I don't know of a tree copy API available.

If I can get it to copy a single file to a hidden directory, I would be happy at this point.

Is there a shell recursive directory example I can study ?

Thanks.

[farrier]

skywalker,

I gave you one in the DateBack.zip

Look in the ProcessFiles proc

FindFirstFile
FindNextFile

hth,

farrier