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Number   :  2828
Date     :  2002-09-20
Author   :  Brian Phillips
Subject  :  Re: Full path v wild cards
Size(KB) :  2


In message , Kan
Yabumoto  writes
>Brian:
>
>Sorry, in my last response to your question, I interpreted
>your question with "normal.dot" as the directory name.
>
>That is why my response was totally "out of sync" ----
>but, the contents were supposed to be useful for readers
>with sloppy backslashing habits.
>
>Now, this one is clear that you are trying to copy *ALL*
>"normal.dot" files in your E:\ drive and copy them into
>the F:\ drive which would create the same paths as needed.
>
>As ALWAYS, I beg everyone who reports strange behaviors
>which makes little sense to include the XXCOPY version number
>as well as the Windows version the problem is observed.
>
>I have checked the current release version, V.2.82.4
>and a few earlier versions (v.2.80.3, v.2.82.3, and
>v.2.82.2) with the following commands:
>
>=A0=A0=A0 xxcopy c:\*\normal.doc=A0 e:\=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 /wd0 /y
>=A0=A0=A0 xxcopy c:\*\normal.doc=A0 e:\temp\=A0 /wd0 /y
>
>I could not find anything wrong with the program.
>XXCOPY found the files in various directories and
>made their copies successfully.=A0 I tested the above
>commands in WinXP-Pro and Win98SE (with both
>FAT and NTFS volumes).
>
>In my case, I did not add /H which may be
>necessary if the file has the hidden/system file
>attributes (or in a hidden/system directory).
>
>At any rate, /wd0 and /y should not change the
>behavior.
>=A0=A0 ------------------------------



Kan

First, may I apologise for posting my problem twice. In mitigation, as
you probably realise, I am new to xxcopy and I did have great difficulty
registering with Yahoo in order to join the group. However, I now have
the mailing list fully operational with Turnpike.

Secondly, thank you for taking the trouble to give such a full reply.

I am using -

XXcopy Pro Edition version 2.82.3
Windows 2000 (SP2) version 5.00.2195 NTFS file system

I tried again -

xxcopy e:\*\normal.dot h:\

and nothing was copied.

I then tried (picking up on one of your hints)

xxcopy e:\*\normal.dot h:\ /h

and the file normal.dot was copied (and all of its sub-directories were
made).

I then worked through all of the intermediate sub-directories and found
one that was marked 'hidden', and I thought that by unhiding that
sub-directory my problem would be solved.

Having removed all attribute markings ('h' and 's' in particular) from
all of the intermediate sub-directories, and from the file itself, I
then tried again -

xxcopy e:\*\normal.dot h:\

and still nothing was copied.

Finally I tried again -

xxcopy e:\*\normal.dot h:\ /h

and the file normal.dot was copied.

Thus my final conclusion is that even though the file and its entire
path is not hidden, in order to copy the file using a wild card I have
to use the /h switch.

Do you have any ideas about where I am going wrong please.

Brian



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