autorenaming files

[c@lle]

hello,
i've used the example code of the 'copy file dialog box' for deleting files in a subdirectory.

see link http://www.vb-world.net/files/shfileop/

but now i want to copy files from one dir to another, but sometimes there are duplicate files. it seems to me that it is possible to 'autorename' this files?! is this true and if yes, how???


eg. source dir : file1, file2, file..., file20

dest dir : has eg file3, file7, file8

now i copy all the files from the source to the dest.

file1 ok
file2 ok
file3 duplicate so must become file4
file4 now duplicate! (just copied) so must become file5
file5 becomes file6
file6 becomes file9 (file7 and file8 where already there!)
file7 becomes file10
file8 becomes file11
...


how can i do this??

[vbud]

Try using FileSystemObject. Before you copy any file to your destination directory, check for the existence of the file with FileSystemObject.FileExists which would return a flag. Then rename your files before moving them.