Hey guys, thanks so much for your continued resonses. The ending of this story is pretty funny; the project is really for my boss, and he was hoping that the other people who have to do this syncing thing (all above him in rank) would be stoked over just having to click on one file instead of going through Windows Explorer (seems like the higher people get in an organization the less they want to have to interact with computers LOL). My boss also didn't want me spending much time on it, so I kept is as simple as possible, and it gets the job done. Sure, it could be more robust, but speed is also a factor. Anyway the person who does my job (sort of resident tech person for a group of 8-10 people), but for the rest of the people that do this syncing, wants nothing to do with it. I think that person feels threatened or lazy. One of the guys that my boss showed this to actually said to me, "Hey, I really like that thing you set up for X, that's neat, can you set that up for me?" when he saw me in the hall. I said sure and we planned to meet in 10 minutes. When I ran into this other person (who basically has the same relationship to this guy as I have to my boss) in the meantime, I ran the idea by her as a courtesy and she totally nixed the idea because she felt she didn't understand it. It kind of sucked because I basically had to break a promise to a very important person, but that was my fault.

Well, at least my boss knows what's up, and he has the handy-dandy script he can run. I think it was still worth it, even for one user. It was also a learning experience for Perl and to continue to try to figure out this other person with whom I have to work closely.

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I like computer programming because it's like Legos for the mind.