Moving groups of files without the "Are you sure you want to"s

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Dan

Running xp home sp2. I use my PC for a lot of video. The machine has 6
hdd's with a total capacity of about 1800 gig. I frequently have to move
larger blocks of files from one drive to another. Often a move will take 30
minutes or more, which is OK, but I often find I'll come back & check on the
progress of a move, only to find it has paused, waiting me to tell it it's
OK to move some "read only" file, thumbs.db, etc. One answer would be to
set all the attributes before hand/delete all the thumbs.db's etc., but
since we're talking about hundreds of files, that would be cumbersome. Is
there any way to tell WE once & for all not to ask me these questions & just
MOVE the bloody files?

TIA

Dan
 
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Running xp home sp2. I use my PC for a lot of video. The machine has 6
hdd's with a total capacity of about 1800 gig. I frequently have to move
larger blocks of files from one drive to another. Often a move will take 30
minutes or more, which is OK, but I often find I'll come back & check on the
progress of a move, only to find it has paused, waiting me to tell it it's
OK to move some "read only" file, thumbs.db, etc. One answer would be to
set all the attributes before hand/delete all the thumbs.db's etc., but
since we're talking about hundreds of files, that would be cumbersome. Is
there any way to tell WE once & for all not to ask me these questions & just
MOVE the bloody files?
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You can use command line tool move :
move /Y C:\*.* D:\
-copies all files in root of C drive to d:\

If you want more control then use XCOPI:
xcopy "C:\Windows\WBEM\" "D:\" /C /I /Q /G /H /R /K Y
-copies the folder WBEM (with all subfolders) to D:\ drive.



Good Luck, Ayush.
 
Dan said:
Running xp home sp2. I use my PC for a lot of video. The machine has 6
hdd's with a total capacity of about 1800 gig. I frequently have to move
larger blocks of files from one drive to another. Often a move will take
30 minutes or more, which is OK, but I often find I'll come back & check
on the progress of a move, only to find it has paused, waiting me to tell
it it's OK to move some "read only" file, thumbs.db, etc. One answer
would be to set all the attributes before hand/delete all the thumbs.db's
etc., but since we're talking about hundreds of files, that would be
cumbersome. Is there any way to tell WE once & for all not to ask me
these questions & just MOVE the bloody files?
Click to expand...

Another option is don't include thumbs.db or whatever other files are an
issue when doing the move.
 
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