Hi Doogle

I try and explain basically is a vision system that check car engines being built correctly this system is check the engine at the end of the line making sure all the components are there we have a software on the system called neurocheck that captures all the images from digital cameras and stores all the images on 3tb hard drive the problem with neurocheck software is we can only set one path for saving images for each check running there're are 10 different checks the software does. what the vb code does when the engine comes in to station with the cameras it receives the engine serial number via comms port then creates a folder with the engine serial number and also creates the sub folders within it 001,002,003 etc. for each 10 checks then the code this is saved on the E: drive then the code creates a vertial drive (z: drive) so when you open up z: drive you have the sub folders 001,002,003,004 etc. from the engine serial number that's active so its easier for the other software to save images to It takes about 12secs to run the 10 checks, so I want to start the timer1 code 15sec later because it should of finish do the 10 checks and also in the timer1 code it searches for recject files and counts how many there are in each 001 002 003 etc etc folders and put the results in the textbox that I want to output to CSV FILE long with what shift build the engine. I need to output the results to the CSV file at those times. when it searches the reject files I need to check the z drive and count how many rejects files there are add to the textboxs but when the next engine comes in count how many rejects and add it to the last figure need to sort that out just thought of that but clear those figures after the CSV file been created.

I think that covers it. thank you for taken your time in this . if it help I email you the code so you can see it.
regards steve