Title: synchronise a directory including all sub directories
Question: you want to have a directory that is always updated with the latest files from a source directory
for instance a template directory
Answer:
uses filectrl
procedure tform1.synchronisedirectory(frompath, topath : string );
var
sr : tsearchrec ;
r : integer ;
begin
application.processmessages;
r := findfirst(frompath + '\*.*', faanyfile, sr);
while r = 0 do
begin
if (sr.name '.') and (sr.name '..') then
begin
if (sr.attr 0) and (fadirectory 0) then
begin
synchronisedirectory(frompath + '\'+sr.name , topath + '\' + sr.name)
end ;
if not directoryexists(topath) then
begin
forcedirectories(topath);
end;
{Version control}
if fileage(frompath + '\' + sr.name) fileage(topath + '\' + sr.name)then
begin
CopyFile(pchar(frompath + '\' + sr.name),pchar(topath + '\' + sr.name),FALSE);
end;
end;
r := findnext(Sr)
end;
findclose(sr);
end;
just start the procedure with a source directory and a target directorie and the files that are different in the target directory wil be updated , directories will be created and stuff.
this program will not however remove directories and files from the target directory if they are not present in the source directory.
to implement that you could use the same procedure and and do it vica versa with remove file functions instead.
this works in delphi 5 but should also work in lower versions