Questions tagged [xcopy]
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Invalid drive specification - Xcopy with long path names - \\?\C:\Some\Really\Long\Path
I'm unable to use the above mentioned convention.
The command that I'm using:
Xcopy \\?\c:\108 \\?\c:\108_2 /e /h /r /y
An error invalid drive specification is received. What am I missing
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copy folders and content to a external drive
i have this
for /F "delims=" %%a IN ('dir /b /s /ad "*"') DO ( FOR /F %%c IN ('dir /b/s "%%a\*.txt" ^') DO XCOPY "%%a" "J:\" )
but it only moves the ...
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XCOPY file verification fails on a symbolic link but diff shows now difference between files
I'm performing an xcopy backup of a disk on Windows using the following command line:
xcopy "d:\" "r:\" /v /h /k /e /b /d
I know that the verify switch doesn't do much but a file ...
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copy big file to multiple locations at the same time
I am trying to use a CMD command prompt to copy a big file (1.5G) from one location to multiple destinations at the same time. Is there a way to do this using COPY/XCOPY etc? I haven't been able to ...
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Copy files except when destination modified in last x days
I think what I am trying to do is simple, but I can't get the robocopy settings right, as I am trying to copy files from src to dest, over-writing files in dest if they already exist, except if ...
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Does XCOPY leave credentials cached in LSASS?
When using XCOPY to copy files to a remote machine, are your credentials used to connect to the remote machine cached in the LSASS of that machine?
I am trying to avoid leaving any credentials ...
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How rename files copied via Robocopy if it exist but with different modify date
I'm using Robocopy to copy files from a folder to another, i think my code will overwrite the file if it was existing on the destination folder and the timestamp was different, what im trying to do is ...
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How to schedule a backup for only the new added files?
I'm a Windows user and wondering: how can I do a backup for the files on a specific folder if the files are not older than x days? Or to backup only the newly added/modified files without doing a full ...
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xcopy only working if I use /F to display full filenames
I was initially just using copy but I got this output:
C:\repos\AutomatedBuildTesting (master -> origin)
(2020-09-18 8:49:01.12) λ copy ".hooks/*" ".git/hooks/*"
commit-msg
The ...
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XCOPY only files from a parent folder and from all its subforlders to a new folder in Windows?
I was searching a lot of times how to copy all the files of different extensions from a folder and all its subfolders to a new folder without copying the folders itself using Batch File. I mean ONLY ...
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What's going on with xcopy /d
What exactly is under the hood of the /d flag? what is the code doing? Reason I'm asking is that I can't tell definitively if /d is reading the entire file from source or just some header. Thank you!
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xcopy in task scheduler ends with error 4
I created a task in task scheduler to copy a specific file to a server each midnight. When I run the command normally in command line it works fine, but the task always ends with exit code 4 and the ...
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How to predefine file/directory parameter to xcopy
I need to run xcopy command. But when I type it with all parameters:
xcopy \\<server>.<domain>.com\c$\Users\<user>\Documents\New_ADuser_mustang.ps1 C:\IAM\New_ADuser_mustang.ps1 /C /...
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Batch file with xcopy runs correctly called from cmd but not with double click
I'm testing a solution for a user getting access denied when running a scheduled backup batch script or by double-clicking it.
I've noticed I have the same issue for a simple xcopy call. Specifically,...
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xcopy.exe exists in every Windows system?
Can I be sure that xcopy.exe exists in every Windows system (7+) and that it can always be found in the system PATH (e.g. C:\windows\system32)?
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