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Thank you, Joe. I modified your macro and it allows me to do the comparison I sought. By the way, while I may have mis-used the word "eloquent" your macro is "elegant" (i.e. simple and concise).

I need to set the values of two Macro Express variables: one, with the amount of free space on my backup drive, and the other, with the file size of the subdirectory I wish to backup. I want the macro to evaluate the two values so that if the file size of the subdirectory is greater than than the free space on the backup drive a popup message is triggered directing the operator to replace the backup drive. Does anyone know of an eloquent way of retreiving such information? If I can get it into an ascii or text file I then can have Macro Express retrieve it and set the variables. TIA.