Hi All

In a project I am working on (VB not Access) I needed to identify if there was a removable drive, ie a pen/flash stick plugged into tthe USB port so that an external backup could be made. Don't agree with making backups on the same machine as the original. (What happens if the pc is stolen or there is a fire?).

What this little applet does is it identifies what drive types are available on the machine. This one can test for all types, in my case if there was no removable drive then it prompted the user to plug one in.

Whilst the user was using the software it copied the backend to the current project path then on exit it backed it up to the pen drive then deleted the working copy from the machine. If a remote drive was available it also copied a backup there as well just in case they loose the pen drive. It is intended to be a single user application so the multi user situation regarding shared data is not an issue.

David

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