backing up favorites

[David]

I have two physical hard drives in one of my computers. I use the
second to back up data from the first as well as from other computers
on my home network. Some of the data that I'm interested in backing up
are my favorites which I attempt to copy with the following command via
a batch file. While I get the file structure, I don't get any of the
files themselves.

xcopy "C:\Documents and Settings\David\Favorites\*"
d:\backup\office\Favorites\ /E /Y /R

Any ideas why?

TIA,
David

 

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[JS]

Try SyncToy:
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JS

 

[RobertVA]

I have two physical hard drives in one of my computers. I use the
second to back up data from the first as well as from other computers
on my home network. Some of the data that I'm interested in backing up
are my favorites which I attempt to copy with the following command via
a batch file. While I get the file structure, I don't get any of the
files themselves.

xcopy "C:\Documents and Settings\David\Favorites\*"
d:\backup\office\Favorites\ /E /Y /R

Any ideas why?

TIA,
David

When I type that command in the command prompt window manually it seems
to copy the favorites properly. Do you have "show hidden and system
files" set on your computer?

When I list MY favorites folder in the Windows XP command prompt window
the files all have a .url extension. since the files contents are easily
read with the type command, the file is text with a URL extension. You
might need to add ".*" to your source string, as "*" alone might only be
specifying extensionless files.

MAYBE XCOPY considers favorites to be system files. Have you tried
adding the /H option?

 

[Guest]

David:

Try two things :

Syntax error

xcopy "C:\Documents and Settings\David\Favorites\*.*" /E /Y /R
d:\backup\office\Favorites\

Use short form of name (8 letter sometimes work better for me)

xcopy C:\Docume~1\David\Favori~1\*.* ... etc (confirm using dir/x)

Note: I haven't confirmed the validitiy of the /E and /R switches though I
use the /Y often myself.

Frank

 

[David]

That was it! Yes, using '*.*' picked up the files with extensions,
i.e., .url. I'm surprised in that I thought that '*' would pick up all
files, not just those without extensions.

Thanks!
David