Windows Explorer

[Bob L]

My wife and I have our computers connected through a wireless home network.
She stores her data files in a single directory with many subdirectories,
each subdirectory representing a separate work project. Periodically I use
Windows Explorer to copy her directory over to my computer in order to back
up her files. I would prefer to only copy files that are new or changed.
Instead, Windows Explorer seems to force me to copy all the files and
overwrite all of the existing files.

Is there a way to set Windows Explorer up to copy only new and changed
files?

 

[Bob I]

Use xcopy with the /m switch

At the command prompt issue

XCOPY /?

for usage.

 

[Paul Knudsen]

My wife and I have our computers connected through a wireless home network.
She stores her data files in a single directory with many subdirectories,
each subdirectory representing a separate work project. Periodically I use
Windows Explorer to copy her directory over to my computer in order to back
up her files. I would prefer to only copy files that are new or changed.
Instead, Windows Explorer seems to force me to copy all the files and
overwrite all of the existing files.

Is there a way to set Windows Explorer up to copy only new and changed
files?

Strange; when I do a copy and it encounters the same file at the
destination, it asks whether to overwrite it and you can select "yes
to all" or "no to all". Must be some setting if you are not seeing
that.