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Number   :  3421
Date     :  2003-01-03
Author   :  Wolfe, Jason
Subject  :  Re: Any way to copy a fixed list of files to another drive?
Size(KB) :  2


Hey,
Their are a few different ways to do this. It depends on the files and the situation. Are they all mp3's just do a copy with *.mp3
Are their files with similar names. You can type part of the name to get all files that have those letters in that order in them.
Beat*. And or if they are a combination of them you could build a list file. Here is a sample list that I built for my backup.

::-----------------------------------------------
:: Document files
:: This will grab all the Microsoft apps docs and others and 
:: put them into a migration folder (except themy documents folder)
::-----------------------------------------------
XXCOPY /CFr:\migrate\files\backup\file.lst

And here is the list file

:: Source
c:\

::Target
"R:\/%Username%\C\My Documents\migration

:: Include these files
/IN*.doc
/IN*.xls
/IN*.ppt
/IN*.pdf
/IN*.dot
/IN*.xlt
/IN*.pst
/IN*.dot

:: Exclude these directories
:: They will be backed up later

/X"C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\My Documents\*\*"
/X"C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Desktop\*\*" 
/X"C:\Windows\Script.doc"
/X"C:\Windows\ShellNew"\*\*"

::Switches
/SGNO /CCY /I /PB20 /Q3


You can include specific files or partial files, like I mentioned earlier, in the include list.
Note: the forward slash on my variable. This is required in a list to be recognized as a variable.






-----Original Message-----
From: jbsjbsjbs  [mailto:jason12z@h...]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:08 PM
To: xxcopy@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [xxcopy] Any way to copy a fixed list of files to another drive?


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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