Xcopy help please

[Jack Gillis]

I have an old fashioned batch file I use very often under XP to do a backup
of My
Documents to a USB Flash Drive.

It contains, among other things, this statement and works just fine and has
so for years.

xcopy "d:\My Documents\*.*" "U:\My Documents\" /D /Y /s

I have added many MP3 files to My Music and there is not room for them on
the USB Drive. Have tried to use the /EXCLUDE parameter tacked on to the
end of the statement but cannot get it to work. I keep getting 'parse' error
or 'Cannot find the files I a trying to exclude.

Will someone help me exclude My Documents\My Music from the copying, please?

Thank you.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have an old fashioned batch file I use very often under XP to do a backup
of My
Documents to a USB Flash Drive.

It contains, among other things, this statement and works just fine and
has
so for years.

xcopy "d:\My Documents\*.*" "U:\My Documents\" /D /Y /s

I have added many MP3 files to My Music and there is not room for them on
the USB Drive. Have tried to use the /EXCLUDE parameter tacked on to the
end of the statement but cannot get it to work. I keep getting 'parse'
error
or 'Cannot find the files I a trying to exclude.

Will someone help me exclude My Documents\My Music from the copying,
please?

Thank you.

Try this:

xcopy /D /Y /s /c "d:\My Documents\*.*" "U:\My Documents\"
/exclude:c:\Exclude.txt

The file c:\Exclude.txt must contain the string .MP3 (and perhaps
others too).

 

[Jack Gillis]

Try this:

xcopy /D /Y /s /c "d:\My Documents\*.*" "U:\My Documents\"
/exclude:c:\Exclude.txt

The file c:\Exclude.txt must contain the string .MP3 (and perhaps
others too).

Thank you very much. I didn't realize the argument for the /EXCLUDE
parameter was supposed to be a file name. I misread the Xcopy /? on that
point.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Thank you very much. I didn't realize the argument for the /EXCLUDE
parameter was supposed to be a file name. I misread the Xcopy /? on that
point.

I didn't either until I tried it myself. Thanks for the feedback.