Vbscript - Compare and copy files from folder if newer than destination files
- by Kenny Bones
Hi, I'm trying to design this script that's supposed to be used as a part of a logon script for alot of users. And this script is basically supposed to take a source folder and destination folder as basically just make sure that the destination folder has the exact same content as the source folder. But only copy if the datemodified stamp of the source file is newer than the destination file.
I have been thinking out this basic pseudo code, just trying to make sure this is valid and solid basically.
Dim strSourceFolder, strDestFolder
strSourceFolder = "C:\Users\User\SourceFolder\"
strDestFolder = "C:\Users\User\DestFolder\"
For each file in StrSourceFolder
ReplaceIfNewer (file, strDestFolder)
Next
Sub ReplaceIfNewer (SourceFile, DestFolder)
Dim DateModifiedSourceFile, DateModifiedDestFile
DateModifiedSourceFile = SourceFile.DateModified()
DateModifiedDestFile = DestFolder & "\" & SourceFile.DateModified()
If DateModifiedSourceFile < DateModifiedDestFile
Copy SourceFile to SourceFolder
End if
End Sub
Would this work? I'm not quite sure how it can be done, but I could probably spend all day figuring it out. But the people here are generally so amazingly smart that with your help it would take alot less time :)
