Chewie wrote: > Over the years my music library has grown and grown first filling the > remaining portion of one external 500GB usb2 drive and then over > spilling and filling a second external 500GB usb2 drive. > > I’ve just bought a WD 1Tb My Book Home Edition hard drive to > consolidate my music onto a single drive, which is at present spread > across the two separate external drives along with various other files. > I plan to keep the two existing drives as off site back up's for my > FLAC’s but can anyone offer some advice as to the best way to > consolidate the two existing separate directories without having to > resort to dragging and dropping individual files between the existing > and new directories. > > > Both directories are identical in structure i.e. > > E or F:/FLACs/Interpol/Turn on the Bright Lights > > Both obviously have some directories for the same bands but contain > different albums. > > > Can any kind soul offer a solution for a relatively pain free > transition. > > Thanks in advance for any help. >
Assuming you're running Windows you can use Xcopy from the commandline, OTOH, just dragging and dropping the whole tree should work, shouldn't it? Using linux or OS/X 'cp -av' should do the trick. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
