se XCopy?
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> -Original Message-
> From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On
> Behalf Of Todd
> Sent: Saturday, 14 May 2011 1:02 p.m.
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] API to Windows explorer
>
>
Why not just use XCopy?
-Original Message-
From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Todd
Sent: Saturday, 14 May 2011 1:02 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] API to Windows explorer
Hi John
You need to code
Hi John
You need to code a COM object implementing the interfaces IContextMenu
and IShellExtInit
http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=V9t0lA-BPUAC&pg=PA843&lpg=PA843&dq=%2BIShellExtInit+%2Bdelphi&source=bl&ots=4-UApQ6dcq&sig=Fu6nyTqN-LYMP6gR6fvtjaD-6_c&hl=en&ei=SNHNTZGKEJD8vQPwlq2uCg&sa=X&oi=book_r
John Bird
Sent: Friday, 13 May 2011 13:35
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] API to Windows explorer
Now back to the original question - is there an API to Windows Explorer to
copy files?
(
I have a nice component HAHFindFile to build the list of folders and files
Now back to the original question - is there an API to Windows Explorer to
copy files?
(
I have a nice component HAHFindFile to build the list of folders and files
in a stringlist, and a routine using TFilestream to do the copy, but I was
thinking its almost certainly going to be faster and mo
or
emergency backup".
-Original Message-
From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Thursday, 12 May 2011 22:18
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] API to Windows explorer
Good grief lighten up! Fr
Good grief lighten up! From what I heard - using a WiFi connection from the
street was not a plan for disaster recovery, it was good kiwi improvisation.
The point I was making was that in Christchurch in 2011, as happened in
Greymouth around 1986 with floods, I dealt with firms where the offic
There's a nice app that already does that. It's called DropBox.
Todd.
> I am writing a program to copy one or more folder trees to a USB drive (an
> extra backup regime for some Canterbury firms who were not able to get at
> servers or finding their offsite backups were also inaccessible).
>
>
Aside â I heard of one firm that had a server and a Wifi router on a UPS
> that had their network guy park outside with a wifi laptop and copy stuff
> from the server before the UPS died. Couldnât go in because the the
> front of the building had fallen out into the street. Thats a cool id
