Yup. You've heard of defense in layers? Well, VB is a leaky sieve that you can try from different angles as each layer fails. So... you didn't hear this from m

Yup. You've heard of defense in layers? Well, VB is a leaky sieve that you can try from different angles as each layer fails. So... you didn't hear this from me. This certainly was from some other engineer tasked with getting $THING done in a corporate environment where everything was locked down and noone had admin. (Never mind that anything on the floor had to have the password taped under the keyboard - or to save time, monitor.) I mean, someone had admin, but it wasn't really obvious who in the plant did and the ones who supposedly did had bad privileges set. So you try to do something absurd like copy a log file automatically in the event of a line crash to a network store. But you can't run the nice application that shadow copies without admin. So you try a batch file, but no dice. Then you try VBA via Excel, and that sorta works, but now you've got to keep Excel running as a monitor, and that garfs up occasionally when the operator alt-tab-resets-power-to-everything. So you try a VBscript, and find that you can plonk that down in the Windows Startup folder and it sorta just works and thank god that's not an issue anymore we can just get back to fixing the line. Every time it fails you can try again from a slightly different vantage point, retreating further as it fails, perhaps appropriately, you need to spend a day on the phone with tech support and get the damn thing done right.