Thanks to all. There is an issue with long path names and spaces but as this is for a local charity as part of a backup routine I have no control over that part of it. The problems I am getting in that area are liveable with as they tend not to use spaces and long file names. I may even just use strtran to remove all spaces in the target name.
My problem has crystallised to the part where it apparently tries to copy the contents of the project that the exe was built from; that and the odd transposition of a pathname in D: to a path based on C:\Documents etc John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

