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Number   :  2838
Date     :  2002-09-22
Author   :  Chaz Cone
Subject  :  Re: CLONE switch not copying empty directories
Size(KB) :  1


Kev, the first thing I'd try (and your command looks OK to me thought the 
trailing backslash after f:\test\ is probably not needed) is to remove the 
/yy switches temporarily and subsitute /L to get it to run and show you 
what would happen without the /L. Just a thought...

Chaz

At 04:35 PM 9/22/2002, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I was looking for a program to simply and reliably copy my "My Documents" 
>directory to a single backup on my removable F:\ drive and update it on 
>each backup, and stumbled upon XXCOPY today. After reading the 
>documentation (well, some of it) and downloading 2.82.4, I created the 
>following test which I believed would achieve what I needed:
>
>XXCOPY "C:\Documents and Settings\Kev\My Documents\Test\" F:\Test\ /CLONE /YY
>
>In the source "Test" directory, I created three directories with the 
>following self-explanatory names -- "Contains 5 Files", "Contains One 
>Empty Dir", and "Empty".
>
>When I ran the above XXCOPY command, it had only copied the "Contains 5 
>Files" directory. That didn't seem right. From the documentation I had the 
>impression that /CLONE was supposed to copy empty directories. I tried 
>adding the /ED switch after /CLONE but it had no effect. I also tried 
>using the set of switches that /CLONE is a shortcut to. And various other 
>things as well.
>
>Could anyone tell me what is wrong? I am running Windows XP Home SP1 and 
>both partitions are NTFS.
>
>
>
>
>
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