Overwrite new files

[alex_read]

Realise I have had a question today already, this one is to do with copying files from 1 location on a hard drive to another. & I am slightly

I can use the fso.copyfile property to foce or leave overwriting files. That bit's fine. BUT....

I have been asked for a third option of overwriting only files which are newer. Now I would class myself as an intermediate VB'er, but am stumped with this.

I think I need to use the getfileinfo API call, but anyideas how to loop for each file in a directory, check it's version / modified object (not even sure which method to look at) & either overwrite or leave it ????

PLEASE HELP ANYONE!!! Any small pointers of what I could look at / read into would help, thank you everyone!

Alex Read

[Iain17]

If you are already using the FSO, then you can use the following properties of the File object.

DateCreated
DateLastModified

[kurtsimons]

use a file box with the local files in it


for a = 0 to file1.listcount-1

if dir(remotepath+file1.list(a))<> "" then

if filedatetime(remotepath+file1.list(a))<> filedatetime(localpath+file1.list(a)) then
kill remotefile
copythefile
end if

else
copythefile
next a

[alex_read]

Thank you, both replies have helped!