Thanks to everyone. I can see the benefits of robocopy. It has been an interesting and frustrating experience!!!
First - most of my folders include spaces so I used quotes, which caused robocopy to throw several wobblies. I then used paths without any spaces and it worked very well, I was very impressed. It also coped with mapped drives no problem. As soon as I added a UNC it failed again because the share names contain spaces - they were given as 'D_Drive (D:)'. I decided to alter the share names to remove the spaces but found I couldn't. The sharing dialogue box said to tick the sharing box and type in a share name but dear old M$ obviously thought I wasn't to be trusted and wouldn't allow me to change the name they thought best. (This all reminds me of New Labour and the Nanny State - we know what's best for you. Sorry, getting late and frustrated <g>). I then picked up Chris's email re the GUI so downloaded and installed that. Instead of running it I had it produce a script which turned out to be exactly what I had entered with quotes!! Needless to say it ran perfectly. (I also learnt that a cmd file appears to be the Windows XP version of a batch file) I then tried it with Pycron as a batch file and it failed - access denied. My network consists of two machines I use for development and experimenting, my laptop and my wife's machine. It is peer-to-peer and we don't want to be bothered with fancy doodads like passwords so don't have any. All the drives are shared and they can all see one another - I accept that it is probably bad practice but it works for me, however I suspect this is part of my problem. The system is quite happy for me to mess about across the network but doesn't like a batch file doing it. It's now getting quite late and long past time I stopped for a beer! I'll think about this some more in the morning. Thanks again. John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
