I'm sorry if I've missed an answer to this somewhere; I've tried without success. Can XXcopy turn off the archive bit on a destination copy it just made? I use...
... Here is one way you can go about it and requires two passes with xxcopy on the second computer. The first pass copies your files as you have been using...
John-- Ahh! Very clever work-around. I doubt I ever would have gotten there. Thanks so much. I'm sure it's going to be a big help. With all the control and...
Hi Chuck, ... attributes, ... Yes. ... doesn't have ... I believe it's intentional that the vast majority of the xxcopy options apply only to the source files....
John-- Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense. I fear that to figure out the number of testing possibilities, it would require remembering something from ...
Hi Guys I've looked through the website , and googled this but I'm not getting anywhere :-) Please help. I have two directories, each with 10 files with names...
... xxcopy cannot do this however a batch file can. Make sure you try it on test files in test directories before using it on your important files. John @rem...
12/11/2007 9:34:33 AM Hi John, Boy that is some fancy work in the batch file! Where did you learn that? Seriously I have been trying to created some file...
... have ... Hi Ed, What helped me the most was the now somewhat outdated but still very good book called "Windows NT Shell Scripting" by Tim Hill. The book ...
12/11/2007 4:56:13 PM John, Thank you very much, I immediately subscribed to both groups. Also I will try to find the book used at Amazon. I appreciate it very...
Thank you so much John. I will definitely try that now. I'm assuming I copy and paste that as is, and modify my source and destination locations. I really...
John, how do I make the lines from my second directory append on a line of it's own, eg. Line1 Line2 Line3 Instead of line1line2line3? Thanks, I've been...
... Hi Niri, If I understand you correctly, you want to put a little vertical space in between the text of the two files when one is appended to the other? If...
Hello, I made a command to delete .jpg files older than 12 hours. XXCOPY c:\Test\*.JPG /DB#12H /RS /Y /ED // delete *.JPG, 12 hrs or older It works however it...
... Whenever xxcopy issues a prompt like this, you can respond with ? and the switch needed to suppress that prompt will be displayed. In your case, you need...
... John, Charles, I don't think that this approach will work as you want. It will work for newly created files on the destination but presumably you will also...
Garry, John and all-- Everyone has been so generous with his or her time that I'm chagrined I don't have time to fully respond, beyond thanking you. I had the...
... Chuck, while /bu can be used for a full incremental backup, it doesn't have to be. You can use /bu as a starting point then add further switches to limit...
Garry, John and all-- It seems that when replying, some of our mail readers append above the quoted text, and some below. Thus, reading the string in its...
I am using 2.92.6 PRO and am a very, very, happy customer :) I just implemented an incremental backup to a networked drive (a Linux-Hacked Western Digital My...
I've been using the /clone tag in a batch program to backup all the workstations in the office. The program runs on one computer and copies all the shared...
Steven-- Given the power and versatility of XXcopy, I'm sure there must be some feature to handle what you want to do. Given my inexperience with XXcopy, I'm...
Steven-- Oops. Typo in the msj I just sent. The expression "if it is true that the directory c:\shared\ exists" should have read "if it is true that the...
... You are using a recent version of xxcopy aren't you? Some time ago, Kan introduced some checking mechanisms on network connections to make sure the source...
... That is very interesting. /JY has been sitting dormant within xxcopy for many years but as far as I'm aware, has never been fully implemented! Also as far...
Hi Garry- A few questions on your idea of first deleting those files which contain different case letters in the filenames.... I have a batch file which uses...
... John, yes, you can use this technique for preserving the case of filenames but it will only work intermittently for directory names. To preserve the case,...
I've just started using the /clone switch as I now have two identical hard drives and use the second drive as a backup of the first. After using the following...
... The first problem is straightforward - xxcopy does not support unicode characters in file names. There is no simple workaround for this. Since you are...
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