You are welcome Extremedesign and thanks for posting your outcome. snb I agree it would be nice to indent and fully comment all code. Your code certainly offers a simple solution to copying files to new locations but would require some adjustments to achieve the full outcome. I also hate using DIR after having some frustrating experience with the DIR function not finding files even though they clearly existed... so now I stick to the filesystem object. Anyways, as always, thanks for your input. Stay safe. Dave