I cannot use that I belive. I am writig a backup software which can back up the files to a given medium. During this time I cannot use different menthids to backup different files I think.

UNICODE chars are two bytes long. So make sure you supply the required buffer for this purpose. If you are using MAX_PATH then use (MAX_PATH*2). Nibu thomas Software Developer

I Have a folder folder1 created in the desktop in Japanese OS. I have folder2 created inside folder1. Length of the full path for folder2 is 244 characters ( not bytes). It has some files also and the complete path is within the 260 characters ( not bytes). If I start the enumeration on the top folder i.e folder1, I get the next file sproperly for all other files. when it comes to folder2, FindNextFile() return zero. I tried the GetLastError() and found that it is not ERROR_NO_MORE_FILES.

For SHGetSpecialFolderPath() we need to give the CSIDL constants. I will not come to know which folder it is. We can even rename the My documents special folder in the desktop. So there is no way of knowing it is my documents or something else. Regarding the SHGetFolderPath(), it wont accept the virtual folder. It works only for the real folder.

Yes, you can write a copy hook extension that is notified of all file operations in Explorer. Check out the IShellCopyHook interface. --Mike-- LINKS~! Ericahist | 1ClickPicGrabber | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | C++ Forum FAQ Strange things are afoot at the U+004B U+20DD