Sub Test()

Dim fo As Object

Set fo = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

fo.CopyFile "C:\file1.txt", "C:\data\file1.txt", False

End Sub


Before you run the above code, create an empty directory
of "C:\data". Oh course, "file1.txt" must exist on C: as well.

If you run the above code once, file1.txt will successfully
be copied into C:\data. However, run the code for a second
time and you get a run-time error 58 message that says:
"File already exists".

Why does this error message appear? I've set the overwrite
option to False, meaning do NOT overwrite.

If I set the overwrite flag to True, the file inside C:\data
never gets overwritten. No matter how many times I try.
(Neither files are set to Read Only)

So, I'm getting an error message when I use the False
option. And, I'm unable to overwrite the file if I use the
True flag.

What is going on here????