Subject Re: Comparing Modification Date Between the same file name From Dick Snow <dickDOT.snowAT@poboxDOT.com> Date Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:23:52 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Or save yourself lots of programming time by using something like RoboCopy. Ken Mayer <dbase@nospam.goldenstag.net> wrote: >On 6/24/2016 12:41 AM, kent wrote: >> Hi , >> >> is there any code for this? >> The scenario is this : >> >> I have 2 different folders "FOLDER A" and "FOLDER B" , >> Folder A is the active Folder Database , Folder B is the back up Folder. >> Now I want to compare (a loop) all the content of both folders base on their modification date. >> >> Conditions are as follows: >> >> A.  If a file name from The Folder A has different modification (more advance in date) date as with Folder B , system will copy the file from Folder A overwriting File to the folder B. >> B. if a file name from Folder A has the same modification date as compared to folder B , system will do nothing. >> C. if a file name from folder A is not present to the folder B , system will copy file to Folder B. >> >> is this possible? > >Look at the file class: > >help class file > >in the OLH. The date() method returns the date a file was last modified ... > >Ken