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Number   :  8707
Date     :  2004-09-11
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: Empty folder being deleted even when excluded
Size(KB) :  1


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Craig"  wrote:
> OK, figureed this out now. My mistake. In my batch file,
> I also list all the files that would be deleted prior to
> deleting them and assumed because I was just listing them
> that some switches were not needed, for example /ED
> 
> XXCOPY d:\ftp\ /x\ftp\inbox\ /x\ftp\outbox\ /x\ftp\extra\
> /rs/s/pd0/db#60/ldz >> d:\deleted.txt
> 
> Notice I hadn't used the /ed switch. It was the above line
> that was causing me the problems.
> 
> Sorry to trouble you. Should have checked further first.
> Craig

Congratulations! You have found (in my view) a new bug.
When you use /L, xxcopy should not take any action to
copy/delete files/directories but should only list the
files that are selected.

Interestingly, if you don't exclude the directory, xxcopy
won't delete it e.g. create empty directories as follows:

\test\dir1\
\test\dir2\

xxcopy \test\ /rs/s/pd0/L

This will not delete either dir1\ or dir2\. However with
the following:

xxcopy \test\ /rs/s/pd0/L/x\test\dir1\

dir1\ will be be listed as an exclusion and will then be
deleted. Further, despite using /rs which should prompt
before deletion, there is no prompt. However this is
understandable since there should be no deletion with /L
so no need to issue a deletion prompt.

As you've found, it's easy to to work around this. Probably
the simplest is to remove the /RS command rather than adding
/ED.

Garry



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