ok now i get permission denied.... import os homedir = os.path.expanduser('~') try: from win32com.shell import shellcon, shell homedir = shell.SHGetFolderPath(0, shellcon.CSIDL_APPDATA, 0, 0)
except ImportError: homedir = os.path.expanduser("~") print homedir print os.listdir(homedir+"\\backup\\") #homedir.replace("\\\\" , "\\") #print homedir backupdir1 = os.path.join(homedir, "backup") backupdir2 = os.path.join(homedir, "backup2") shutil.copy (backupdir1, backupdir2) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list