Pegasus (MVP) said:
If your CD is configured to behave like a floppy disk then
you can use a "smart" backup process:
xcopy /s /d /c "c:\My Documents\*.doc" "E:\My Documents"
Start a Command Prompt and type this command:
xcopy /?
to see the meaning of the various switches. In your case, the /d
switch is important.
This is certainly what I want but I've just been testing it out. I made a
folder on my hard drive D: drive called TestFolder and put a couple of text
files
At the command prompt I typed in
xcopy /d /s /y D:\TestFolder\*.* E:\TestFolder\
That worked great, creating TestFolder on E and copying the text files
across. When I typed something into one the text files on D, and again typed
the above, it spotted that and copied that across to E without copying the
other, unchanged files again.
BUT
I put a subfolder inside TestFolder on my D: drive. I called in
FoldInTestFolder. I put a text file into it and repeated my command as
before.
Although the report appeared that the new file in FoldInTestFolder had been
copied across, it wasn't, nor was the folder created in E:
What have I done wrong?
Evi