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Number   :  5238
Date     :  2003-08-08
Author   :  niteowl
Subject  :  Re: copy files to different locations
Size(KB) :  2


At 08:36 PM 8/7/03,You shared with me these great words of wisdom:
>--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, niteowl  wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> using xxcopy, win98se OS,
>>
>> copied my windows\favorites\ folder to a destination folder,
>> all was okay, but realized I left out a folder in the path,
>> so went back and redid the command line changing the
>> destination path to the correct place but now it tells me
>> it can't find any files to copy. ???
>>
>> Why can't it find the files this time?
>>
>===================================================
>> XXCOPY ver 2.84.6 2003-08-07 08:46:49
>> Command Line = C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\XXCOPY.EXE
>> c:\windows\favorites\
>> i:\mirror\allain\cbackup\windows\favorites\ /clone /we
>> /on:xxcopyfc.log
>> -------------------------------------------------
>
>> Source base directory = "C:\windows\favorites\"
>> Destination directory
>> = "I:\mirror\allain\cbackup\windows\favorites\"
>> File name template = "*"
>> Directories processed = 69
>> Total data in bytes = 0
>> Elapsed time in sec. = 0.702
>> Action speed (MB/min) = 0
>> Files examined = 447
>> Files copied = 0
>> Log File Created = C:\WINDOWS\xxcopyfc.log
>> Exit code = 100 (No files were found to copy)
>>
>
>When you use /clone, it is a shorthand version of a number of
>switches based on /Bi. /Bi means to copy files only if the
>file is new or the corresponding file in the destination has
>a different date/time/size. The exit code 100 means that either
>there were no files matching the selection criteria (i.e. there
>are no files in "C:\windows\favorites\") or that the identical
>files already exist in I:\mirror\.... so there was no need to
>copy them.
>
>Your post #5226 indicates that you have previously cloned your
>complete c:\windows\ to i:\mirror\allain\cbackup\windows\ so
>I assume the latter applies.

if that's the case, then wouldn't I get that "copied failed" error on all 
previously copied files?

niteowl

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