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14600 ian100448 Send Email May 2, 2008
11:31 am
Hi, I have a batch file which copies my working file every 2 hours to a secondary HDD and also a 16gb USB pen drive. The commands are identical except for the...
14601 Stuart Halliday
milton_h_stuart Send Email
May 2, 2008
1:02 pm
... Drop //ff ? -- Stuart Halliday http://theaquariumwiki.com/...
14602 spammailaddress Send Email May 2, 2008
2:02 pm
I'm setting up a series of batch files using xxcopy to backup a hard drive. A complete copy once per week with an incremental copy on all other days. I'm...
14603 ian100448 Send Email May 2, 2008
6:25 pm
Hi, The drive letter is changing as the source folder moves into a sub folder - see consul output below [screen dump] C:\batch>xxcopy C:\alldata&#92; J:\alldata&#92;...
14604 ian100448 Send Email May 2, 2008
6:25 pm
Hi, Dropped the /FF and still the same. Retained the /F to see what is happening and the result is not consistent. The batch command is "xxcopy C:\alldata&#92;...
14605 Stuart Halliday
milton_h_stuart Send Email
May 2, 2008
7:39 pm
... Are you running FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS formatted drives? Makes a big difference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits What...
14606 Stuart Halliday
milton_h_stuart Send Email
May 2, 2008
7:43 pm
... Could be just a verbose syntax error. Or use Filemon or PROCMon (by Sysinternals) to monitor the file traffic during a test run. Then you'll know for sure....
14607 John Zeman
john041650 Send Email
May 2, 2008
10:37 pm
... Because of the different drive types in use you will probably still want to use /FF to allow up to a 2 second difference between the file timestamps....
14608 John Zeman
john041650 Send Email
May 2, 2008
10:43 pm
... Windows sets that limit at around 255 total characters, not xxcopy. For an explanation of this you might want to read message 8162 at the following URL: ...
14609 John Zeman
john041650 Send Email
May 2, 2008
11:12 pm
... I have never seen this happen with xxcopy and would examine just exactly what kind of drives are being used. It also might be a good idea to add the /oE3...
14613 mcoppo01 Send Email May 7, 2008
8:10 pm
How do I delete or remove all remnants of XXCOPY from my computer. Not just the folder and it's contents, but any bits and pieces that may be in the registry...
14614 des4212001 Send Email May 7, 2008
8:19 pm
... Looking in the xxcopy{version}.zip: xxcopy.exe xxcopy16.exe xxpbar.exe xxcopy.lic Uixxcopy.bat (the uninstaller) Are all placed in the "installed to"...
14615 bochi_28 Send Email May 7, 2008
11:13 pm
Hi, We use xxcopy pro edition in several scripts that are rather time sensitive. These are looping scripts and so xxcopy will get called numerous times during...
14616 jdhite1 Send Email May 8, 2008
1:57 pm
Same problem here with version 2.96.5. I've tried the latest beta, version 2.97.1, but it has the same problem. Also the switch /WV0 (Suppresses warning for...
14617 Stuart Halliday
milton_h_stuart Send Email
May 8, 2008
2:27 pm
... If you visit the XXCOPY web site it says something on this issue. I quote: Question 21 New mechanism to detect the OS (Windows) environment. Starting with...
14618 Bonno Bloksma
bbloksma Send Email
May 8, 2008
2:47 pm
Hi, [....] ... That timer might indeed be a bit shorter, either we see it within a few seconds, let's assume 20 max, or we'll probably never see it as the...
14619 jdhite1 Send Email May 8, 2008
6:43 pm
Though going back to an earlier version might fix this problem, if I did that who knows what other issues might surface (after all, presumably the newer...
14620 bochi_28 Send Email May 8, 2008
8:06 pm
... for a 3 ... author had ... to allow ... time to ... install SP3 ... No really no need to install XP3 yet, but our issue is that we have quite a number of...
14621 Roger @ Gmail
rogerneill Send Email
May 9, 2008
2:45 pm
Hi All, This patch is based on Alain's patch for a similar problem with version v2.85.8, which you can read about here: ...
14622 Stuart Halliday
milton_h_stuart Send Email
May 9, 2008
7:28 pm
... Well it wouldn't would it? The author removed it as I quoted in my posting. ... Can you bypass it by pressing a key? -- Stuart Halliday ...
14623 Stuart Halliday
milton_h_stuart Send Email
May 9, 2008
7:32 pm
... 10 secs is long enough. ... Nah you don't let them install it silly! :-) M$ did issue a SP block patch for auto-updates to IT admin people a year ago. :-) ...
14624 Stuart Halliday
milton_h_stuart Send Email
May 9, 2008
7:34 pm
... Hmm nice. But as a 'newbie&#39; to this group I have to ask why do we need to do this? This is a group advertised by the author on his site so I assume its ...
14625 Roger @ Gmail
rogerneill Send Email
May 10, 2008
5:30 am
Hi All, I think we should accept that Kan is a busy guy and likes to do things professionally. If he hasn't heard of this problem - which is unlikely - I'm...
14626 Peter Meijer
meijerpb Send Email
May 10, 2008
9:53 am
Excellent, Roger! Thank you very much for this quick fix/workaround. They should hire you for the XXCOPY support department. I too have a number of calls to...
14627 Roger @ Gmail
rogerneill Send Email
May 10, 2008
4:29 pm
Hi All, Thanks Peter, but it's Alain who did all the hard work here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/message/9665 I just searched for the same code...
14628 jdhite1 Send Email May 11, 2008
2:02 pm
Hi Stuart- If you mean that /WV0 was removed at some point, my doc file for XXCopy still shows that switch. My file must be out of date so thanks for alerting...
14629 Stuart Halliday
milton_h_stuart Send Email
May 12, 2008
7:06 pm
... So didn't my example batch redirection line work? That's what I normally do with a program that requires a key press. ... Nothing here, so why not email...
14630 jdhite1 Send Email May 12, 2008
8:14 pm
Hi- Piping a character via adding Echo x | before the XXCopy.... line did nothing (as far as I can see anyway), but as yet I've not tried using the separate...
14631 jdhite1 Send Email May 13, 2008
1:00 pm
Hi- I tried your second idea, adding the file containing the carriage return character via "< c:\file.txt" at the end of each XXCopy line. This seems as if it...
14632 Stuart Halliday
milton_h_stuart Send Email
May 14, 2008
1:04 pm
... Plain ANSI. I've used these methods with the chkdsk (amongst others) which asks for the Y key. <thinks> "ECHO." is a 0d 0e (carriage return and a linefeed)...
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