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Number   :  3164
Date     :  2002-12-01
Author   :  listsetc@b...
Subject  :  tripping xxcopy-corrupting filenames
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I am using the freeware version of xxcopy (ver2.82.3) and am impressed with its 
versatality and also the advice given here. But I am getting some data corruption of 
such an unusual nature that I wondered if it could be attributed to something I am doing 
wrong. 
I am using it to delete files in the target directory which are identical to the source, and 
then all files except .zip files in that directory, which are then copied to another directory 
before being overwritten. The idea is that anything that I have zipped should not have 
altered, and if it has I want to save the original copy in the back-up directory.
But I am getting a strange type of error on the target drive; occasionally a file is 
renamed so that one letter in the name is increased by one, so autoexec.bat can 
become autoeyec.bat, and something.gif can become something.hif, and once a digit 
was increased by one.
Now xxcopy sometimes gives me prompts about deleting the directories, and I have 
sometimes killed it by Ctrl-C; also I have a pause control in my batch file for unexpected 
error levels when I also use Ctrl-C. Last time I did this I had run scandisk (USING 
wIN98) a day or two before and had not accessed that drive. On rebooting my file-
structure was again corrupted and my dos-based virus checker started running all over it 
(it runs on detecting changes in the boot sector).
Any thoughts to narrrow down the cause?
Douglas Holden



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