... At least it isn't me. I can't get /ED to work period, No directories will process? And leaving the trailing slash off the empty directories gets them...
... Thanks Garry that worked like a charm!! I was having a hard time finding that switch.. I think I was searching the switches with the wrong verage. Dan...
... I am not aware of any anomalies regarding the /X exclusion specifier or the /ED preserve directory option. Both have always worked flawlessly for me, but...
Thanks to the magic of Google and the archived messages, I found the original thread regarding the /RX xxcopy bug. And believe it or not, this happened nearly...
... Thanks Garry for your reply, Yes i meant more than what is on the web site in the sense : are there negative comments ? XXcopy is such a serious tool that...
... directories ... just ... (there ... specifically ... was 1 ... to ... of ... specifier or the /ED preserve directory option. Both have always worked...
... After reading this and while dorking around with the file removal bug (s) it has come to me like a bolt of lightning that most of what I'm doing in...
... /ED //Copies empty directories The description you have of the above option indicates your problem. /ED does not copy anything, it only preserves a...
... prompts ... problem. /ED does not copy anything, it only preserves a directory that becomes empty after the files have been deleted. Below is a general...
I want to maintain a "clone" of my live files. I want to have a directory tree of changed/updated files. I want to have a directory of deleted files. I have an...
I would like to use xxcopy to simulate the picture loading function of adobe. xxcopy will create a directory with exactly the same time stamp and I can open a...
Hi, I'm new to xxcopy although very glad that I found it. I have a problem because my backup program is repeatedly identifying a file (just one) for deletion...
WinXP Home edition, Sp-2 XXcopy 2.85.8 (free version). I use the clone switch to backup files from one hard drive to another. However, when I backup from a...
... There's lots of ways to get the current date and time into an environment variable. Assuming NT or higher, the usual method is to parse the output of the...
... Your command is correct but there seems to be a slight bug when you use /z. Even though /bu turns off all the normal copy/overwrite prompts, you still...
... Are you sure it is ALL files? If so, you probably have one of the buggy versions of packet writing software that doesn't record the timestamps correctly...
... I've just replied to a similar post on saving files which will be deleted to a backup directory (#9412). You use the same technique for saving files that...
I appreciate the quick response. It almost works, but I don't understand the commands well enough to see what is wrong. set cmd=xxcopy /$yyyy-mm-dd-hhmm-ss$...
... <snip> ... Ah, you're using the freeware version which issues a prompt when you use a macro. What you are seeing is the 2nd word of each line of the...
Thanks. It works great. No reason it has to exactly copy the Adobe timestamp, but the only difference is a leading 0 on the time. I only came across xxcopy the...
I've read the documentation on XXCOPY and I think it will do this, but if possible, could someone put my mind at rest ? I have a network with a mix of NT4 &...
... I do not work in a network environment so I have no experience with this, but this question does come up in here every now and then. As I recall the...
... this, but ... same ... another W2K ... permissions). ... with this, but this question does come up in here every now and then. As I recall the security...
Does XXCOPY provide you with the ability of copying data to a new destination without altering the metadata (Creation Date, Modified Date, Accessed Date,...
... For Last Modified and Created, yes. For Last Accessed, sometimes but not always. You may want to read technical bulletin 15 (link to it is below) for...
I'm not sure where I went wrong but I've got a problem getting my main hard drive on my W2K system back up and running... This all started three days ago when...
I use XXCOPY in a batch file to back up my C: files to a CDRW on E:. I want to protect myself against inadvertently editing a backup file instead of its...
Hi Malcolm, I run Win XP Home Edition. I had a very similar problem when I tried to upgrade to SP".. I eventually had to resort to a Low Level Format of the...
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