Moving Files Help!

[Brent Wege]

Ok, I want to move files to an archive folder that have not been
accessed in the last 1.5 years while retaining permissions to a folder
on the same drive/partition.

I can do a search with the windows search tool and find them and move
them but the directory structure is not maintained.

Is there a tool that I can use to select these files and move them
while maintatining the directory structure?

Thx,

-Brent

 

[Alan Illeman]

Ok, I want to move files to an archive folder that have not been
accessed in the last 1.5 years while retaining permissions to a folder
on the same drive/partition.

Why is it important to retain the folder permissions, if you are
archiving them?

I can do a search with the windows search tool and find them and move
them but the directory structure is not maintained.

Is there a tool that I can use to select these files and move them
while maintatining the directory structure?

Thx,

-Brent

You could create an archive using WinZip, which will preserve the
directory structure, and unzip them at the new location - but it
won't preserve the permissions, well I don't think it will ;-)

 

[Brent Wege]

It is important so just "in case" they need to be accessed, the users can go
into the archive folder...

 

[Alan Illeman]

It is important so just "in case" they need to be accessed, the users can go
into the archive folder...

There is a utility at http://here.is/olof called xcopynt.exe that
supposedly copies the permissions as well. Olof is currently
on It's only
a 9k file.

Alan

 

[Brent Wege]

There is a utility at http://here.is/olof called xcopynt.exe that
supposedly copies the permissions as well. Olof is currently
on It's only
a 9k file.

Alan

Thanks for the advice but I would rather not copy 20GB of files.. just
move them to an archive folder on the same drive with the directory
structure. This way they retain the permissions (same volume) and
they move quickly b/c it is just changing the pointer, etc.

There has to be a way...