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You should be able to stop it by issuing the same hotkey start sequence, such as CTRL-ALT-1. Note this won't stop the macro immediately, but will queue it for stop the next time the macro is acted upon. Another way to stop the macro is to right-click on the little running-person icon near in the lower right of your toolbar. When that icon is present, it means a macro is active. Also pressing Scroll-Lock + Pause together will stop your macro. From the avialable Help menu: "...please note that macros that consist of a lot of keystrokes can send the keystrokes rather quickly and Windows will buffer up the keystrokes. Once such commands have been buffered up in Windows, aborting a macro will not cancel them. In these cases, it may appear that the abort command did not work when in reality the macro has already finished issuing its commands and Windows is now processing them."

Looks good, nothing jumps out at me. Since this is a pretty simple macro, maybe you should just delete it and create a new one? The only modification I suggest, just for kicks, is to build in some delay - say five seconds. Grasping here but maybe Access is sending back an odd event code. Here is a 5 second delay - <LAUNCHDEL2:0:5C:\db1.mdb>

Hmm. We may need to see your code posted here. I tried this with success, and in fact under no circumstances can I get this to fail. Works if the destination directory exists or does not exists, works if none/some/all files are already in the destination directory, works no matter how I manipulate the files in the source directory: From Script -> Commands -> Files/Folders -> Copy File or Files: Ensure radio button "Copy File or Files" is selected Ensure File(s) Path/Name is a valid source directory Ensure "New Name:" is a valid destination directory (does not have to pre-exist) Ensure "Recurse into subfolders, if using wildcard names" is selected Here's the source code, and below that a screen shot of my selections. <DOFILE:05:NY:C:\Documents and Settings\rolf\Desktop\Source-Directory>C:\Documents and Settings\rolf\Desktop\Destination-Directory>

I don't have an answer off hand, but throw your code up here and maybe we'll spot something. Also is this macro running on an XP or NT box? Assuming here not '98 or SE.