xcopy

[Thomas J Marshall]

I used xcopy in WXP to copy a few gig's of stuff from my
d drive to my new c drive. i created a folder on the c
drive (called it oldd) and used /s /e switches to copy
all folders/subfolders etc.

Everything copied OK, c shows more gigs but I can't see
the stuff I copied, not even the folder I created to put
it in. Show hidden files and folders is checked and I've
looked in my documents etc.

Any ideas?

 

[Rob Schneider]

I used xcopy in WXP to copy a few gig's of stuff from my
d drive to my new c drive. i created a folder on the c
drive (called it oldd) and used /s /e switches to copy
all folders/subfolders etc.

Everything copied OK, c shows more gigs but I can't see
the stuff I copied, not even the folder I created to put
it in. Show hidden files and folders is checked and I've
looked in my documents etc.

Any ideas?

1. what was the exact xcopy command you used?
2. how do you concluded it copied "OK" when you "can't see"?
3. with what are you "looking" to "see" the results?

 

[Jack Gillis]

Just a thought. You might try, in your folder options, making sure that
Hide System Files is not checked. I doubt that is the problem but it is
worth a try. I don't believe xcopy with copy system files but I
wouldn't wan to be the farm on it.

If you can remember the names of a few of the files you copied you could
do a Search for them or from the C: command prompt issued a Dir
<filename> /s to see where they might be.

Good luck.

 

[Jack Gillis]

Whoops! I was wrong. There is a switch for xcopy to copy system files.
Sorry about that.

 

[Thomas J Marshall]

I used xcopy d c:\oldd /s /e. C drive properties
reported the additional gigs although the folders were
not visible in explorer.

I found the directory (oldd) in the c drive that I copied
21 gig's to so I used rmdir to delete it from the command
prompt. The c drive originally had 6 gigs used making 27
but after I deleted from the command prompt I have 17
gigs. Don't know why.