Whew, where to start. Non-programmer type here, aside from the required classes for my masters/bachelors. In over my head with a demand from my boss I can't exactly refuse.

Long story short, an HTA or Native VB executable would work...however, I have limited knowledge of either.

My code so far:

http://pastebin.com/6ecU3nMH

Right now its a fairly organized/disorganized work, but without some parts complete since I am not sure how to best implement them. If you're not interested you can stop there, but I'll write the full-list of requirements below:

Govt Agency issues 500Gb hard drives to each person who flies these particular Aircraft. All of the required publications are updated to a sole shared drive on the network at the office.

Appliation would be on the root of the hard drive and verify the hard drive's copy of the different books are same (date modified) version or newer is available. I started with the premise of...Green Light: Verified, nothing to say or do. Red: Version on Hard Drive is verified as not current, need to update. Yellow: Not able to verify, i.e. not on network at the office.

The files are placed in several directories and organized that way, so it would have to be a recursive verification, and copy on the changed pubs since they are all fairly large.

Many other features they asked for but those are for way after I can get basic functionality going. Some of which I started but havent finished. (as im sure anyone who reads can tell.)


Give me tips, advice, solutions, arrows pointing in a general direction...whatever you can. I am under a time-schedule,but thanks for reading this far.

Bryan