Re: Copying files from CD to harddrive

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From: Paul Pedersen (no-reply_at_swen.com)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:00:00 -0800

Maybe a hardware problem? Either the CD's or the drive might be getting
funky. Can you copy the files using Windows Explorer?

"Anynomous" <wipeout64@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:GuIvd.64008$AL5.22547@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
>I have an application that copys files from a CD to the user's harddrive.
> The files it is copying were not created in FoxPro, but that shouldn't
> matter. Since I don't know the names of these files in advance and only
> know
> the directory where they will be dumped, I use variables for the copying
> process. Copy FILE (lcfile) TO (mapdest)
>
> This has been working all along, then just started giving me problems
> recently. About a couple of months ago, it would stop when it got to a
> certain name with an error message stating that it can't copy that file. I
> tried stepping thru the app and the file names are correct so the
> variables
> are holding their values. Now it sometimes copies files and stops with an
> error message after copying a few or it won't copy any and give an error
> message. Why would this behave differently on different machines? The file
> I'm getting an error on is a basic straight forward name 'awcodc32.dll'.
> It
> is not being copied to the system directory, but it's own directory. The
> file someone else is getting an error on is another file name.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
>

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