Need Help deleting record from text file

I am working on a backup program that keeps a record of the original path so
that a backup file can be replaced. If the user deletes some of the backup
files then the original path list contains more entries than the number of
files in the backup location.

I would like to be able to compare the list of files in the backup location
to the original list of files and delete any records of the files no longer
found at the backup location. (I hope this makes sense) :-)

I started out using two listbox's and then comparing them to each other, but
when the number of files goes over 2 thousand it gets very slow and I have
some that or over 10 thousand.

Is there a way of doing this faster?

--
Norm

Don't blame me, my programming is
self-taught and my teacher was not
very experienced. :-)

normfowler_don't use_@xxxxxxxxxxx


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