every time I run it I get a song and dance about the license, install, etc. I can't just run it as is and copy things. Each time I run it it wants to install....
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Charles Carroll
charlesmarkc...
Nov 2, 2009 5:29 pm
every time I run it I get a song and dance about the license, install, etc. I can't just run it as is and copy things. Each time I run it it wants to install....
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Kan Yabumoto
tech_xxcopy
Nov 3, 2009 12:22 am
... First of all, you need XXCOPY64 for a 64-bit environment. If you run the regular (32-bit) XXCOPY, it will give you a warning and terminate immediately. To...
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jpssnyder
Nov 3, 2009 8:21 pm
I thought I posted a comment to this thread this morning but it disappeared - I am having the identical problem with the 64 Bit ver running on a Win 7 Pro...
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unique_craig
Nov 3, 2009 9:52 pm
I have a destination directory full of files that, if I use the /ts-1 switch, are identical to the source. How do I modify the timestamps on the destination...
15813
garrydeane
Nov 3, 2009 10:47 pm
... Presumably you've recently been through a daylight savings change and you have mixed FAT & NTFS disk formats for this to occur. - you can allow the copy to...
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unique_craig
Nov 3, 2009 11:16 pm
I had already planned to reformat the source drive. So I was copying all the files to the destination drive. I am copying almost 500GB of data, and I'm...
15815
garrydeane
Nov 3, 2009 11:31 pm
... No. Copying across a network will definitely be slower than if the src & dst drives are directly connected to the same computer. What about disabling DST...
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unique_craig
Nov 4, 2009 12:52 am
Disabling DST or changing the time zone, either way I still have to copy all the files that were copied after 2am Sunday. It will take more than 2 days to...
15817
garrydeane
Nov 4, 2009 4:19 am
... OK since you now have a mixed group of timestamps, some offset, some not, you'll need a TOUCH utility. Current versions of Xxcopy don't have that ability. ...
15818
unique_craig
Nov 4, 2009 5:42 am
... ok, thanks :) Ironically, I'm not sure which will take longer, finding and learning a touch utility, or letting xxcopy re-copy everything, ;-) Certainly...
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Virg
nilmotvj
Nov 4, 2009 5:54 am
From: "garrydeane" <garrydeane@...> ... I'm not taking issue with you but I'm surprised that the previously read character can't be written at the...
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garrydeane
Nov 4, 2009 12:25 pm
... You may well be right (quite possible with 1000Mbps) but there are significant overheads with ethernet that reduce its throughput and the only way to tell...
15821
garrydeane
Nov 4, 2009 12:55 pm
... Not quite. There are efficiencies in reading a HDD disk track so that the hardware doesn't have to move the read heads i.e. it is most efficient to read a...
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unique_craig
Nov 4, 2009 1:49 pm
... I think that's a good point. xxcopy shouldn't worry if it's methods are efficient or not at the lower levels. It should operate as efficiently as possible...
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garrydeane
Nov 4, 2009 11:38 pm
... I don't know the inner workings of xxcopy or even if it uses a block by block copy method. Certainly your suggestion sounds workable (if not reading and...
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blueperiod330
Nov 10, 2009 4:00 pm
if i run my xxcopy bat file manually, everything works fine. the bat file begins with a net use command, the source machine connects to the destination...
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Jacob Hughes
jacob_bright...
Nov 10, 2009 4:32 pm
Try removing the username/password stuff from the net use command, and supply the credentials on the scheduled task. ... From: xxcopy@yahoogroups.com...
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blueperiod330
Nov 10, 2009 5:08 pm
to be clear - set up a separate scheduled task to supply the credentials only?...
15827
Jacob Hughes
jacob_bright...
Nov 10, 2009 5:11 pm
No, sorry. Supply the credentials to the scheduled task that you're having issues with. There should be an option to supply credentials, you'd enter it there...
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rocketjsquirrel97701
rocketjsquir...
Nov 10, 2009 5:51 pm
I'm running XXCOPY with the /oA switch. Whenever XXCOPY runs, this information is entered into the file: ...
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Kan Yabumoto
tech_xxcopy
Nov 10, 2009 9:08 pm
... <snip> ... it would be ... We add the info to facilitate communications in tech support activities. You may suppress the dreaded info (switch parameter...
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chaxc
Nov 12, 2009 3:18 am
I'm trying to create a batch file that will allow me to move older files to an external drive on my system. In doing this, I don't want any of the files that I...
15831
doug.pcmedic
Nov 12, 2009 3:18 am
I found XXcopy when checking for the "insufficient memory" problem with xcopy. I downloaded the free version to try it but when I run it, there is a flash of a...
15832
garrydeane
Nov 12, 2009 8:57 am
... As far as I'm aware, there is no prompt for No to all. The usual way to handle this is to use a suitable parameter that excludes the files you don't want...
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garrydeane
Nov 12, 2009 9:10 am
... According to the xxcopy home page, version 2.98.2 supports Windows 7 RTM and Server 2008 R2 RTM. Sounds like you've got incorrect parameters in your batch ...
15834
sadhu44
Nov 12, 2009 9:20 am
Gary, ... Isn't there a copy-and-rename function so that he wouldn't overwrite the existing files?...
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Kan Yabumoto
tech_xxcopy
Nov 12, 2009 11:28 am
... A Good news with the upcoming Ver 3 of XXCOPY is that it anticipated the exact feature that is being discussed here. ...
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walterrehm
Nov 12, 2009 11:46 am
I like and use xxcopy, but have always missed a multi-threaded switch like in richcopy or now in the free tool robocopy from MS: ...
15837
chaxc
Nov 12, 2009 2:35 pm
I tried the /BB switch and I think that it does what I need it to do. I was under the impression that the /BB switch was for the /CLONE option and was leery of...
