Hi, The following code has worked for me, I will continue from here to make this further userfriendly. More I would like to know how can i distribute my python code as self installer package. In the process of learning programming I would like take OutlookBackup.py as my first project and learn accordingly. Please guide me in this.
Once again thank you all of you for your valuable suggestions Regards, Kk --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- import os, sys ,shutil, win32file import time from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon local_app_data = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath (0,shellcon.CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA) outlook_path = os.path.join (local_app_data, "Microsoft", "Outlook" ) # print outlook_path #c:\documents and settings\060577\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook source = outlook_path #source = outlook_path +'\\*' #print source backup = 'D:\MailBackup' backup1=r'D:\temp\outlook1' backup2 = 'D:\MailBackup' today = backup1 + '_' + time.strftime ( '%Y-%m-%d') now = time.strftime('%H.%M.%S') target = today +'_'+ now shutil.copytree(source, target) # copy directory tree ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list