[Freedos-user] XCOPY still acting up in Windows XP !!?? (copying to external hard drive)
I have trawled for a solution but remain mystified, and I have been a basic user of basic DOS for a few years. In the past I used XCopy successfully on a regular basis to copy the contents of the Owner\My Documents folder, with the d/ switch blank so that only changed files would be overwritten, to a backup folder. However I can't get this to work when copying to the external drive: I want to copy My Documents from the C: drive to a Backup folder on an external hard drive, which is drive I: connected to my PC. I can manually copy files there but XCopy generates error messages. Here's my batch file as it is now: XCOPY C:\Documents_and_Settings\Owner\My Documents\*.* I:\Backup\My_Documents\*.* /s /h /d /r /y Notice that in an attempt to figure this out I inserted underscores between folder name words, but with or without these, I get either too many parameters or invalid path. A colleague suggested inserting ~ after the 7th letter of a folder name (Backup\My_Docu~\ for example) but that doesn't work either. Any bright ideas??? and thank you! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/XCOPY-still-acting-up-in-Windows-XP-%21%21%28copying-to-external-hard-drive%29-tf4712372.html#a13469798 Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] XCOPY still acting up in Windows XP !!??(copying to external hard drive)
Many thanks, I will give this a try. A reply from Di [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MegaBrutal Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 4:15 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] XCOPY still acting up in Windows XP !!??(copying to external hard drive) Hi LimeyDi, Notice that in an attempt to figure this out I inserted underscores between folder name words, but with or without these, I get either too many parameters or invalid path. A colleague suggested inserting ~ after the 7th letter of a folder name (Backup\My_Docu~\ for example) but that doesn't work either. Any bright ideas??? and thank you! Parameters that contain long file names with spaces, should be indicated with quotation marks: XCOPY C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\*.* I:\Backup\My Documents\*.* /s /h /d /r /y That should work. Regards, MegaBrutal - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] XCOPY still acting up in Windows XP !!?? (copying to external hard drive)
Hi LimeyDi, Notice that in an attempt to figure this out I inserted underscores between folder name words, but with or without these, I get either too many parameters or invalid path. A colleague suggested inserting ~ after the 7th letter of a folder name (Backup\My_Docu~\ for example) but that doesn't work either. Any bright ideas??? and thank you! Parameters that contain long file names with spaces, should be indicated with quotation marks: XCOPY C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\*.* I:\Backup\My Documents\*.* /s /h /d /r /y That should work. Regards, MegaBrutal - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
