xcopy help please...

slinxy · 21 Jun 2012 at 11:19

Hi
My MS-DOS must be very rusty... I need the switches for xcopy to copy all files and directories (which as files in too) from one directory to another.

Thanks in Advance

NealR · 21 Jun 2012 at 11:20

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289483

Google....

Uhtred · 21 Jun 2012 at 11:27

consider robocopy

bledd · 21 Jun 2012 at 11:57

xcopy /e /h /y "c:\sourcefolder" "d:\destinationfolder"

http://ss64.com/nt/xcopy.html

If you're on Vista/7, then use robocopy instead.

robocopy /e "c:\sourcefolder" "d:\destinationfolder"

the next time you run robocopy it will only copy new & updated files

If you're on XP/2003, then save this into C:\Windows\System32\ and you'll have robocopy! http://bleddyn.co.uk/creations/ROBOCOPY.EXE it's made by MS

slinxy · 22 Jun 2012 at 07:57

Thanks... I was using the right switches but not saving the batch file.. lol... the joys of using keyboard shortcuts on a mac RDP to a windows server.

Nunzio · 22 Jun 2012 at 11:12

robopcopy is much better than xcopy.