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Number   :  4375
Date     :  2003-04-20
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  (no subject)
Size(KB) :  2


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Egan"  wrote:
> i did what you told me and after 1 gb it stopped saying
> that the job was to large and then says invalid command.com
> enter correct name of comand interpreter (eg, c:\command.com).
> i needed to send a total of 19 gb to my 80 gb second hard
> drive is there anyway to finish the job or make it go all the 
> way through and what should i enter for the invalid comm?
> 
> thanks for your help
> 

Are you using xxcopy16 or xxcopy (32 bit)? The following post from 
Kan suggests that the "job too large" error is most likely to be 
associated with xxcopy16 due to limited memory available. 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/message/3052. Either way, here's 
a couple of suggestions:

Try running the /clone operation again. The copy will pick up pretty 
much where it left off i.e. any files previously copied will be 
skipped.

If that still fails (and it may do), split the copy into sections 
based on the number of files to be copied. If you have a huge number 
of files in each of say 5 directories, clone those directories 
individually e.g.

xxcopy c:\bigfolder1\ d:\targetfolder\bigfolder1\ /clone
xxcopy c:\bigfolder2\ d:\targetfolder\bigfolder2\ /clone
etc.

You may have a signigicant number of temporary files that you really 
don't want to copy anyway. Typical culprits are internet cache files 
and files in various temp directories. You can either clean these up 
beforehand (best option) or exclude them from the copy however I'm 
not sure that the latter will relieve the "job too large" condition. 
To exclude say the temp and cache directories try:

xxcopy c:\ d:\targetfolder\ /clone /X*\cache\ /X*\temp\

To clean up the cache directories, use Internet Explorer-Tools-
Internet Options-Temporary Internet Files-Delete Files. To clean up 
the temp directories, use explorer to locate them then you can pretty 
much delete anything you find there.

As for the error relating to "invalid command.com" this is usually 
fatal and indicates that a program (presumably xxcopy) has 
overwritten a critical area of system memory. A re-boot is usually 
the only reliable fix to this.

Garry



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