[RESOLVED] Need to have the ability to copy/paste a file or folder back to my ListView

[jmsrickland]

I have an Explorer like application which displays folders and files the same as they are displayed in Explorer. If I select a file or a folder and then click on Copy menu option then click on Paste menu option I rename the file/folder to 'Copy of.....'. Now if I click on Paste again (with no other copy action) I rename that file/folder to Copy (2) of .....'. I can keep on doing this over and over each time renaming the file/folder to 'Copy (3) of .......', 'Copy (4) of......' etc, etc. Now if I select another file/folder and do a Copy/Paste I can rename that to 'Copy of....', Copy (2) of ......' etc, etc. Where my problem comes in is when I do a copy/past, let's say, on 'somefile.txt' I rename it to 'Copy of somefile.txt' and everything is OK, Now I do a copy/past on another file 'someotherfile.txt' and again I rename it to 'Copy of someotherfile.txt' and again everything is OK but if I go back to the first file, 'somefile.txt' and copy/paste it again my program isn't aware of the first time I did this so I wind up with another 'Copy of somefile.txt' so now I have two listings of the same name.

My question is how would I go about avoiding this? I'm thinking about using a table of some sort or a Collection perhaps, but I don't have an idea how I would build this table/collection, access it to check if I have already made this copy/paste and keep track of the number of times the copy/paste occured so no matter when I do a copy/past of a previous file that has already been copied/pasted I always get the next sequence number for the Copy (nn) of.......'