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[drucey]

I have a problem, and i can't think of a good solution.

Was hoping you clever people might..

The till systems on my island produce a report every day. a "Cap" file. A .txt file, about 200k each.

There are 7 tills. Each has it's own folder.

So every day, a new txt file is created in "Till 1" folder, "Till 2" folder etc.

These are named "20050331" (today's date, in that format).


They are saved in a protected area of a network drive.

Someone needs access to the files, but they are not to have access to the protected drive.


Is there any way of getting them over to another drive?

I was thinking something along the lines of a BAT file - that when run, copies the newest file over to a shared drive.
A bat file that could be put into the Start Up, so every morning it is run. And run on someone's computer that has access to both the protected, and shared, so they could access the files to move them.

I thought about copying *.* -> shared drive, but that would take too long (200 txt files in each folder, and growing daily!)

Is there any dos commands that could specify only the latest (which would be yesterdays) and then copy them somewhere?

Excuse me if i am talking utter codshite.

Or any other ideas you may have?



Thanks WHT!

[Teh_Winnar]

is there anything wrong with giving them access to just that folder? you could set security to allow them to only view that folder on the network drive. You can then map that folder as a drive on their local pc.

[drucey]

I think there may be a little worry that the person may then be able to delete/alter files.

Is it possible to give them read only access to a folder?

[Vortex-Steve]

Yeah, right click on a folder in Windows and you can check yourself. There are a number of tick boxes like Full Control, Read, Write etc. Just tick the ones that apply to that user.

[drucey]

Ah, got it - many thanks!