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Lou
I have a file name witha wildcard:
"D:\myFolder\Lo go1.*tga"
There are 50 files that match this wilcard.
I want to copy these 50 files to another directory

I Tried
FileCopy("D:\my Folder\Logo1.*t ga","D:\TargetD ir")

but that didnt work?

any ideas..
-Louie
Nov 21 '05 #1
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Lou wrote:
I have a file name witha wildcard:
"D:\myFolder\Lo go1.*tga"
There are 50 files that match this wilcard.
I want to copy these 50 files to another directory

I Tried
FileCopy("D:\my Folder\Logo1.*t ga","D:\TargetD ir")

but that didnt work?

any ideas..
-Louie


I believe you need to loop through and copy each one.

This code should help.
http://www.vbcity.com/forums/faq.asp...stem&#TID19980

or this one:
http://www.bubble-media.com/cgi-bin/...es/000026.html

Google is our friend....
Nov 21 '05 #2
Lou
That only copies directories(All files) not individual files based on a
wildcard match???
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Lou wrote:
I have a file name witha wildcard:
"D:\myFolder\Lo go1.*tga"
There are 50 files that match this wilcard.
I want to copy these 50 files to another directory

I Tried
FileCopy("D:\my Folder\Logo1.*t ga","D:\TargetD ir")

but that didnt work?

any ideas..
-Louie


I believe you need to loop through and copy each one.

This code should help.
http://www.vbcity.com/forums/faq.asp...stem&#TID19980

or this one:
http://www.bubble-media.com/cgi-bin/...es/000026.html

Google is our friend....

Nov 21 '05 #3
"Lou" <lo********@com cast.net> schrieb:
I have a file name witha wildcard:
"D:\myFolder\Lo go1.*tga"
There are 50 files that match this wilcard.
I want to copy these 50 files to another directory

I Tried
FileCopy("D:\my Folder\Logo1.*t ga","D:\TargetD ir")

\\\
For Each FileName As String In Directory.GetFi les(..., "*.tga")
FileCopy(...)
Next FileName
///

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
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Nov 21 '05 #4

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