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The following code is a sample of how I am trying to create a directory, biased on the date, and then writing a backup file to a CD for a weekly backup. All the code works down to sending it to the CD. If I do the steps in manually it seems to work, as far as putting the file to the CD and creating the directory. Haven't tried to write the CD yet. Is there another approach to this I am missing? Thanks.

Code:

$LongDate = (@year & @mon & @mday) ; Setup date constant for folder name

MsgBox( 4096, "Day of Week", "Today is: " & $LongDate, 10) ;Display the folder name

Sleep(500)

DirCreate("f:\" & $LongDate) ;This will change to Ken's d-drive which is his CD

sleep(5000)

FileCopy("c:\DPSIBU\WEEKLY.bkf", "f:\" & $LongDate , 9) ; this is for testing on bobby's computer for ken e will output

sleep(5000)

Don't think the long sleeps are necessary. I forgot to say that if I change the f: drive to the c: drive it will work just fine.

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The following code is a sample of how I am trying to create a directory, biased on the date, and then writing a backup file to a CD for a weekly backup. All the code works down to sending it to the CD. If I do the steps in manually it seems to work, as far as putting the file to the CD and creating the directory. Haven't tried to write the CD yet. Is there another approach to this I am missing? Thanks.

Code:

$LongDate = (@year & @mon & @mday) ; Setup date constant for folder name

MsgBox( 4096, "Day of Week", "Today is: " & $LongDate, 10) ;Display the folder name

Sleep(500)

DirCreate("f:\" & $LongDate) ;This will change to Ken's d-drive which is his CD

sleep(5000)

FileCopy("c:\DPSIBU\WEEKLY.bkf", "f:\" & $LongDate , 9) ; this is for testing on bobby's computer for ken e will output

sleep(5000)

Don't think the long sleeps are necessary.

You don't need the sleeps at all and You don't nned The DirCreate() either (because you used 9 as the flag for FileCopy())

I would also try to make an early decision on how you plan on burning the CD.

The easiest is to get the path to the CD Burning folder from the registry and copy to that

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

That's the method used by Windows that gives the standard "You have files waiting....." message.

The other method would be to use cdburn.exe if you have it. I have it in my system32 folder but I don't know off the top where I put my directions for using it so you might have to Google that.

Forgot to mention that the value you need in there is "CD Burning"

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