Hi people , i am writing a backup program for our machines at work and am a bit stuck on one bit if anyone can help.....

i am needing this software to work on different pcs and am wanting it to copy from the local users temp folder to a pen drive , the problem im having is i cant seem to find a variable that i can use to choose the local users folders , as you can imagine each machine has a different user .

there is one file called FATALERRORLOG.TXT that i need to copy from the temp folder

most of the machines are on XP and a very few on 2000 .

if anyones got some code i could use or just let me know it would be greatly appreciated

Mark

Dunno much about VB, but in VC you can call

DWORD GetEnvironmentVariable(
LPCTSTR lpName, // address of environment variable name
LPTSTR lpBuffer, // address of buffer for variable value
DWORD nSize // size of buffer, in characters
);

No doubt there is some VB equivalent, I couldn't say I've never written any.

Anyways........

I beleive you can use the environment variable "USERPROFILE" on XP this relates directly to "C:\Documents and Settings\<current user>"

Alternatively, the variable "TEMP" appears to point to my user\temp folder, so you could just use that.

Does that help?

Magilla is correct, you can use any of the normal file open commands in VB and include %TEMP% to have Windows substitute the current user's temp folder. You can also use it if you are doing the copy by executing a shell command.

... open "%TEMP%\FATALERRORLOG.TXT" for reading ...

You can also get the temp folder programatically using FileSystemObject; you'll need to add a reference to the Script Control first though.

Dunno much about VB, but in VC you can call

DWORD GetEnvironmentVariable(
LPCTSTR lpName, // address of environment variable name
LPTSTR lpBuffer, // address of buffer for variable value
DWORD nSize // size of buffer, in characters
);

No doubt there is some VB equivalent, I couldn't say I've never written any.


Yes, there is a dedicated API viewer that comes with VB which declares all the windows API correctly using the VB syntax.

My.Computer.FIleSystem.SpecialDirectories.Temp
will return a string with the path you need.