My Documents Mess

[Guest]

Hi,

I have a problem on my hands. I have a user who at one time had her My
Documents directed to the server. This worked fine when she had a PC but we
got her a laptop and we copied her my documents from the server to the My
docuemnts on the local hard drive of the laptop. The problem is that we
forgot to delete the My documents on the server and she now has two My
documents and has documents unique to both and common to both. She also has
a lot of folders and folders within folders in her My Documents. We want to
find the easiest way to merge the two together using the most current file in
each. I am familiar with how windows overwrites a file and gives you the
date modified but the problem is that since there are so many folders within
folders, I don't want to just overwrite one folder with another. It would be
time consuming to go into each folder and overwrite each file. Is there a
faster way of doing this that anyone can think of?

Thanks,

 

[Mike Williams]

Hi,

I have a problem on my hands. I have a user who at one time had her My
Documents directed to the server. This worked fine when she had a PC but we
got her a laptop and we copied her my documents from the server to the My
docuemnts on the local hard drive of the laptop. The problem is that we
forgot to delete the My documents on the server and she now has two My
documents and has documents unique to both and common to both. She also has
a lot of folders and folders within folders in her My Documents. We want to
find the easiest way to merge the two together using the most current file in
each. I am familiar with how windows overwrites a file and gives you the
date modified but the problem is that since there are so many folders within
folders, I don't want to just overwrite one folder with another. It would be
time consuming to go into each folder and overwrite each file. Is there a
faster way of doing this that anyone can think of?

1. Get the Robocopy commandline utility
2. Back up both sets of documents
3. Use Robocopy to copy one set over the other, with most recent version
winning

 

[Guest]

Mike,

Thanks for your help. I have been trying to research robocopy on the
internet but have been having trouble. Is there any information you can
provide on how to do this?

Thanks again,

 

[Mike Williams]

Mike,

Thanks for your help. I have been trying to research robocopy on the
internet but have been having trouble. Is there any information you can
provide on how to do this?

Thanks again,

It's part of the Windows NT Resource Kit and is downloadable from a
variety of places. It is just a single command-line EXE with a myriad of
options, all documented on the web (just google "robocopy") or by
running robocopy /? at the command line.