hi after a quick discussion on c.e.x it might by reasonable to raise the following issue as a bug: dired-do-copy fails when applied to a directory. the error message is: Copy [-p] `c:\apache\ampersand' to `c:\apache\peter' failed: (file-error Opening input file Permission denied c:\_idx\spider\6.5\apache\ampersand) strangely enough rename and delete both work fine, copying in ms windows explorer works and dired-copying with an GNU emacs worked as well. happy fixing! %-) (or if it's not a bug, what do i do wrong?) leooo ps: maybe important: i have installed emacs 21.4.10 natively but cywin is on the system present. Emacs: XEmacs 21.4 (patch 10) "Military Intelligence (Windows)" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Fri Nov 08 2002 on TSUNAMI Package: Dired current state: ============== (setq dired-version "7.10" dired-backup-if-overwrite nil dired-chown-program "/etc/chown" dired-cleanup-alist '(("tex" ".toc" ".log" ".aux" ".dvi") ("latex" ".toc" ".log" ".aux" ".idx" ".lof" ".lot" ".glo" ".dvi") ("bibtex" ".blg" ".bbl") ("texinfo" ".cp" ".cps" ".fn" ".fns" ".ky" ".kys" ".pg" ".pgs" ".tp" ".tps" ".vr" ".vrs") ("patch" ".rej" ".orig") ("backups" "~") ("completion-ignored-extensions" "CM/" "CVS/" ".o" ".obj" ".elc" "~" ".bin" ".lbin" ".dvi" ".class") ) dired-compression-method 'gzip dired-compression-method-alist '((gzip ".gz" ("gzip") ("gzip" "-d") "-f") (compress ".Z" ("compress" "-f") ("compress" "-d") "-f") (pack ".z" ("pack" "-f") ("unpack")) (compact ".C" ("compact") ("uncompact")) (bzip2 ".bz2" ("bzip2") ("bunzip2") "-f")) dired-copy-preserve-time t dired-dwim-target nil dired-failed-marker-shell ?! dired-filename-re-ext "\\..+\\'" dired-find-subdir nil dired-gnutar-program nil dired-keep-marker-compress t dired-keep-marker-copy ?C dired-keep-marker-hardlink ?H dired-keep-marker-kill ?K dired-keep-marker-rename t dired-keep-marker-symlink ?S dired-keep-marker-uucode ?U dired-kept-versions 2 dired-listing-switches "-al" dired-local-variables-file ".dired" dired-ls-F-marks-symlinks nil dired-ls-program "ls" dired-mail-reader 'vm dired-mode-line-modified "-%s%s%s-" dired-no-confirm nil dired-omit-extensions '(".class" ".lbin" ".bin" ".elc" ".obj" ".o" "CVS/" "CM/" "~" ".orig" ".rej" ".vrs" ".vr" ".tps" ".tp" ".pgs" ".pg" ".kys" ".ky" ".fns" ".fn" ".cps" ".cp" ".bbl" ".blg" ".glo" ".lot" ".lof" ".idx" ".dvi" ".aux" ".log" ".toc") dired-omit-files nil dired-omit-regexps '("\\`#" "\\`\\.") dired-refresh-automatically t dired-show-ls-switches nil dired-trivial-filenames "\\`\\.\\.?\\'\\|\\`#" dired-unshar-program nil dired-use-file-transformers t dired-verify-modtimes t reporter-version "Your version of reporter is obsolete. Please upgrade." )