xcopy line needed - help!

Posted: 09-17-2003, 03:47 AM

fallon

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Can someone tell me how I can copy a folder and/or a file
in xcopy? If you could respond with the correct command
then I can cut and paste it in.

Thanks, I'm having a very hard time trying to get at my
old files on a slave drive.

Here's what I need to do:

Copy the folder:

E:\My Documents\animation demo

to

C:\anim demo

OR do I need to transfer one file at a time?

Then I'd need (as one eg.) to copy:

E:\My Documents\animation demo\my_turn.wav

to

C:\anim demo

Is xcopy case-sensitive? If you are copying from MY
DOCUMENTS do you still include the space between MY and
DOCUMENTS or do you make it all one word?

Confused, but learning.

Thanks

Fall

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Ron Martell

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Re: xcopy line needed - help!

Posted: 09-17-2003, 05:30 AM

"fallon" <radioredhead@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Can someone tell me how I can copy a folder and/or a file
>in xcopy? If you could respond with the correct command
>then I can cut and paste it in.
>
>Thanks, I'm having a very hard time trying to get at my
>old files on a slave drive.
>
>
>Here's what I need to do:
>
>Copy the folder:
>
>E:\My Documents\animation demo
>
>to
>
>C:\anim demo

Can't you use Windows Explorer to do this job for you?

Open the folder E:\My Documents\animation demo
Select any file in the folder. Press Ctrl+A (= select all then
Ctrl+C (= copy selection)

Then open the folder C:\anim demo and press Ctrl+V to paste the
selected items into that folder.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Cindy Winegarden

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Re: xcopy line needed - help!

Posted: 09-18-2003, 02:31 AM

Hi Fallon,

If the path and name of the file or folder have spaces then you need to put
quotes around the whole thing.

XCOPY "C:\Folder with spaces\File name with spaces.txt" "D:\Other folder
with spaces\Other file with spaces.txt"

--
Cindy Winegarden MCSD, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
cindy.winegarden@mvps.org, www.cindywinegarden.com

"fallon" <radioredhead@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:06e801c37cc5$f96233f0$a401280a@phx.gbl...

> Can someone tell me how I can copy a folder and/or a file
> in xcopy? If you could respond with the correct command
> then I can cut and paste it in.
>
> Thanks, I'm having a very hard time trying to get at my
> old files on a slave drive.
>
>
> Here's what I need to do:
>
> Copy the folder:
>
> E:\My Documents\animation demo
>
> to
>
> C:\anim demo
>
>
>
> OR do I need to transfer one file at a time?
>
> Then I'd need (as one eg.) to copy:
>
>
> E:\My Documents\animation demo\my_turn.wav
>
> to
>
> C:\anim demo
>
>
>
> Is xcopy case-sensitive? If you are copying from MY
> DOCUMENTS do you still include the space between MY and
> DOCUMENTS or do you make it all one word?
>
> Confused, but learning.
>
> Thanks
>
> Fall

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