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Number   :  4117
Date     :  2003-03-24
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: problem creating skeleton directory
Size(KB) :  1


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, anders thoresson  wrote:
> I'm trying 'xxcopy "c:\documents and settings\anders\my
> documents\" d:\backup\ref\ /CLONE /TR0' to create a
> reference skeleton directory for diffrential backup.
> 
> The directory structure is created, but no files are
> put in it. Instead, I get errors like this, for each
> and every file:
> 
> C:\documents and settings\anders\my 
> documents\SEM\Deleted\01_03_2003_12_50_09_MobileMSG12.rtf
> Size mismatch
> Copy failed
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> According to the FAQ, Size mismatch means that the source
> file and destination file doesn't match in size. Fair enough,
> since I want to truncate the destination to 0 bytes. But why
> are the files missing?
> 
> Running under Win2k. Both C: and D: are NTFS-drives. Using
> xxcopy freeware 2.82.9.

I tried it on NT (both FAT and NTFS) with Xxcopy 2.84.0 and it works 
without a problem. It may relate to that version. Since the /CLONE 
switch includes /V1 (Verifies the copy by comparing the file size) 
you might be able to work around this with:

Xxcopy \src\ \ref\ /CLONE /TR0 /V0.

Garry



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