: : i know that to create a backup, i could make a new file identical to the onw i want to copy and then actually gather the data from the file and copy it all into the new one and therefore creating a backup but is there any easier way?
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: : Doing it the way i have explained is a lot of code and is very confusing. I mean, in windows, you could simply copy and paste the file and i was thinking along those lines.
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: You could use the CopyFile() API function. Or you could open 2 TFileStream objects and call the CopyFrom() method. Here is the code for the stream variant:
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:   Source := TFileStream.Create(SourceFileName, fmOpenRead);
:   Dest := TFileStream.Create(DestFileName, fmCreate);
:   Dest.CopyFrom(Source, Source.Size);
:   Dest.Free;
:   Source.Free;
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