Hi All, Im looking for a way to check if a file has changed, and if so, copy it to a new direftory (sought of like a rudimentry program update). Any help would be more than appeciatred!

Does the directory your copying it to have a version of the file? If so you could probably use a batch file, something to the effect of.. fc x:\destination\existingversion.ext x:\update\newverion.ext>nul if %errorlevel%==1 (copy x:\update\newverion.ext x:\destination\existingversion.ext) else goto otherstuff echo.y :otherstuff This would compare the files and if they are different the old version would be overwritten with the new version. If you don't have another file to compare against then you might have to go down the slightly more tedious route of using dates. Obviously You will need something to find if the file has changed, a date an old version.....something?

Thanks for that, What I think Ill do is create two files that are the same, and when I have a update Ill just replace that file. Problem solved! Thanks for the help.

more simply: xcopy d:\src\my.txt x:\files\ /d ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2