synctoy

englishpremier · 16 May 2008 at 11:31

I have downloaded sync toy in an effort to automate the office back-up

However when I go to run the back up it fails. Synctoy tells me that the files could not be found. :confused:

I'm pretty confused as I can see the files right there and path to them is all correct.

Anyone else experienced this? Or know of a solution?

MarcLister · 16 May 2008 at 11:35

Weird. It can't find the files you want copied? I've never experienced this. What kind of disk are the files on?

englishpremier · 16 May 2008 at 12:08

Windows XP NTFS - basically they are is 13gb of folders and files in the my documents directory that I want to back up.

I have tested with folders elsewhere and it works but will not work with these files.

MarcLister · 16 May 2008 at 12:09

Are they locked? Is it only files in your My Docs that won't work? Try copying them manually to another folder not in My Docs then try again. See if its the directory they are in that is causing the problem.

bledd · 16 May 2008 at 12:10

screenshot of the left & right folder paths..

or just use robocopy, and make a bat file..

robocopy /e "%userprofile%\My Documents" "E:\backupfolder"

englishpremier · 16 May 2008 at 12:16

Interestingly after the 5th try it is working.

This is the first time I tried it after a successful back up of a test folder.

After it has finished I will again to repeat the error and post a screenshot

bledd · 16 May 2008 at 12:18

think you need the destination folder created already (with write access to it obviously)