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Briefcase Type folder
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Mike Lewis
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Tell us more about what you want to achieve.
Do you want to be able to move files into an actual Windows Briefcase folder? If so, then you can treat it just like any other folder. Use the VFP COPY FILE or RENAME commands, or the DOS COPY or MOVE commands, to place the file in the folder.
Do you want to programmatically create a Windows Briefcase folder? If so, first create a new folder in the usual way (with the VFP or DOS MD or MKDIR command). To give it the properties of a briefcase, you need to store a special DESKTOP.INI file in it. For details, see
Or, do you want to provide your users with a facility for synchronising their files, but not necessarily as part of the built-in briefcase mechanism? In that case, you will need to specify in more detail what you want to achieve.
Mike
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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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Do you want to be able to move files into an actual Windows Briefcase folder? If so, then you can treat it just like any other folder. Use the VFP COPY FILE or RENAME commands, or the DOS COPY or MOVE commands, to place the file in the folder.
Do you want to programmatically create a Windows Briefcase folder? If so, first create a new folder in the usual way (with the VFP or DOS MD or MKDIR command). To give it the properties of a briefcase, you need to store a special DESKTOP.INI file in it. For details, see
Or, do you want to provide your users with a facility for synchronising their files, but not necessarily as part of the built-in briefcase mechanism? In that case, you will need to specify in more detail what you want to achieve.
Mike
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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Visual FoxPro articles, tips and downloads
Olaf Doschke
Programmer
Mike, I tried going the way the wikipedia article says and the folder does not become a briefcase folder just by adding the desktop.ini
On the other hand I created a briefcase folder manually and the desktop.ini in it differs slightly from what wikipedia says. Nevertheless applying that desktop.ini to yet another folder also does not work.
There's more to it, I found there is a syncui.dll, that is supposed to include a Briefcase_Create function, but that entry point is not found.
The article also says the briefcase has deprecated in windows 8, but I am also not able to do this on Win7.
You may give it a try on XP, ramanjain: rundll32.exe syncui.dll,Briefcase_Create
Otherwise there is OneDrive, DropBox, GoogleDrive and more like these and if you don't trust these services you can encrypt your files automatically before syncing them via Cloud Drives, when using Boxcryptor as a preprocessing tool.
Bye, Olaf.
On the other hand I created a briefcase folder manually and the desktop.ini in it differs slightly from what wikipedia says. Nevertheless applying that desktop.ini to yet another folder also does not work.
There's more to it, I found there is a syncui.dll, that is supposed to include a Briefcase_Create function, but that entry point is not found.
The article also says the briefcase has deprecated in windows 8, but I am also not able to do this on Win7.
You may give it a try on XP, ramanjain: rundll32.exe syncui.dll,Briefcase_Create
Otherwise there is OneDrive, DropBox, GoogleDrive and more like these and if you don't trust these services you can encrypt your files automatically before syncing them via Cloud Drives, when using Boxcryptor as a preprocessing tool.
Bye, Olaf.
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