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Number   :  3417
Date     :  2003-01-02
Author   :  jbsjbsjbs
Subject  :  Any way to copy a fixed list of files to another drive?
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New to this forum, so apologies if a very newbie question . . .

I'm interested in using xxcopy (or another program if xxcopy is not 
the right one) to copy a subset of my 15,000 song MP3 directory to an 
MP3 jukebox. The file/directory structure will be the same, and I 
currently generate a list of the paths and file names from a database 
of the 5000 or so that I want to copy.

Since they are coming from 800 different directories, and often only 
some of a given directory is slated for copying, manually selecting 
and dragging is not an option.

My current solution, then, is to create a 5000 line DOS batch file, 
where each line consists of something like:

copy "f:\music\Pop_1-C\Beatles, The\Abbey Road\01 Come 
Together.mp3" "g:\Pop_1-C\Beatles, The\Abbey Road\01 Come 
Together.mp3"

and run the batch file.

My question is, does xxcopy offer any way to load a list of 5000 
files and copy them all? At the very least, I may replace the COPY in 
my batch file with XXCOPY, but if there's a way to just point XXCOPY 
to a text file listing the target files, that would simplify things 
even further.

Thanks very much, and thanks for a very exciting and promising 
program!

--Jason



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