Running Windows XP Pro I'm trying to run xxcopy from a bat file that starts a new process. I've tried command lines: start "" /b xxcopy.exe /pb /backup /q3 /zs...
... Xxcopy is a cmdline utility not a windows utility whereas the progress bar is a windows utility that can exist as a separate windows executable. Cmdline...
... Well thanks. I would have thought though that the XXPBAR process would have some connection with the XXCOPY process (obviously it must) and would ...
I'm running XXCopy on Windows Server 2003 and backing up files on a Window 2000 Server. Awhile back we upgraded XXCopy from version 2.93.1 to 2.96.6. After the...
... It's not a bug but a change to how xxcopy handles shared file access. See http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy44.htm for full details. You need to add /SHRW to...
... Starting with ver 2.96.0 (released on 2007-09-07), we decided that XXCOPY's default file-sharing method be more conservative. It was one of the few...
... To be perfectly honest, we really can't figure out exactly how the Start command works, especially with the /PB option. As Garry pointed out, XXCOPY cannot...
A few weeks back, I messed around with the Start Command for about 3 hours (not related to XXCOPY). I needed to start a Windows Program called Evernote, after...
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... Well thank you all again. I appreciate your replies. I was not so much concerned with the behavior of XXPBAR as it is a non-essential but useful indicator...
Our music files are scattered across a few computers. I would like to gather them onto one. Some files are different versions of the same song by the same...
Hi all using a 'Photo Bank' to collect my pictures of my camera. This Photo Bank creates some subdirectories (SD001, SD002 etc.) each time one loads pictures...
Usually when we are using xxcopy we are either copying one folder or a single drive letter. I need to be able to copy multiple folders within a certain drive...
I want to copy a file from the C:\My Documents directory, but I get the message, diretory does not exist. I used the fosllowing lie in my batch file: ...
... Xxcopy will only accept one source directory so your options are limited to: - create a batch file to run one xxcopy command for each source directory -...
... You can do this in batch by: 1. recursively processing each directory using the FOR /D command to extract the directory name and date 2. Using FOR /F to...
... Xxcopy doesn't rename files except in limited circumstances. One of those that does is the /SG option that gathers files from multiple directories into a...
Thank you Garry, Although, being an xxcopy noob, I do not fully understand exactly how the /sg option works, it sounds like this is what I want. I can live...
... Gary, thanks for your reply. This does not work, because it grabs the date of the directories. The files inside those directories of the external HD should...
... Gary, an example: (files on external HD) directory: sd001 file name: pic1.jpg file date: 10.2.2009 pic1.jpg should go into directory p:\photo\20090210\ -- ...
... OK here's a revised version. @echo off setlocal for /d %%a in (E:\*) do call :process "%%a" goto :eof ... set yymmdd= set cmd=xxcopy %1 /ld/zs for /f %%i...
... Gary and others ;-) ... Thanks for the try. I think that was a version I got stuck a while ago. If you try, you will see that this is still with a bug. It...
... Not a bug so much as I didn't notice that you have files with different dates in some of the sub-directories. OK, a different approach that utilises more...
... @echo off setlocal set src=E: set dst=C:\photo set "cmd=xxcopy %src% /ld/zs/s^|sort" for /f %%i in ('%cmd%') do call :process %%i goto :eof ... if...
I have a batch file with a few lines and before executing each line this message comes up and requires hitting the keyboard to proceed: "This version of Xxcopy...
I receive files in a directory E:\Downloads, often in subdirectories. Every other day I want to copy these files complete with the directory-structure to...
... You can add /ED1 to preserve 1 level (the top level) of directories. See xxcopy /e/help To see what switch is required to suppress an xxcopy prompt, type ?...
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