Merlin’s Delphi Forge

If you want to delete a file and have the ability to recycle it you should better forget about low-level functions such as DeleteFile(). You need to use the Shell API functions in order to use the recycle bin. This is because deleting files with the use of the recycle bin is not just moving [...]

There are various ways to copy/duplicate databases. Using TBatchMover you can copy the structure and data but can’t copy the index files. Then again when you use FileCopy() you can’t copy the tables corresponding index files automatically and you have to define all the files. One of the ways to duplicate a database is to [...]