It does exist. I was attempting to explain that the very first file that is copied to sDest is .dat file extension. Since I didn't think VBA could open, read, and write to that type of file I copy the .dat as well as create a Temp.txt. Then when a second or third file of that type (TESTMAIN) is copied to the directory it should find the TESTMAIN.txt file and append to that one. This is all messy I know. I didn't think I could open and read anything from the .dat file. Let me mess around with it and see what's going on. Maybe you can and this all not needed.