Copying files frustration

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I have a bunch of mp3 on my laptop and I back them up onto another extrernal
harddrive. After I copied the main bulk of them every now and then I want
to add some extra ones that are on my laptop to the back up. Since I am not
sure which ones are new I select them all, hit copy and then hit paste on
the external drive. Then when it gets to a folder that is already there it
asks me the following questions: Would you like to copy over the files that
are in this directory? Hit YES, YES TO ALL, NO, CANCEL, The problem is if
you hit yes it or yes to all it will rewrite all of the MP3 which can take
an hour. If you hit no and lets say it is a Beatles directory which has
one album in it and you want to add two more albums. If you hit no it will
skip the whole directory, leaving out your new added albums. There has got
to be a easy way around this? Any ideas?
Thanks
 
russ lavergne said:
I have a bunch of mp3 on my laptop and I back them up onto another
extrernal harddrive. After I copied the main bulk of them every now and
then I want to add some extra ones that are on my laptop to the back up.
Since I am not sure which ones are new I select them all, hit copy and then
hit paste on the external drive. Then when it gets to a folder that is
already there it asks me the following questions: Would you like to copy
over the files that are in this directory? Hit YES, YES TO ALL, NO, CANCEL,
The problem is if you hit yes it or yes to all it will rewrite all of the
MP3 which can take an hour. If you hit no and lets say it is a Beatles
directory which has one album in it and you want to add two more albums. If
you hit no it will skip the whole directory, leaving out your new added
albums. There has got to be a easy way around this? Any ideas?
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Use 'xcopy' at a DOS prompt. Use the /? command-line switch to get help on
using it, or read the help included in Windows.
 
In said:
I have a bunch of mp3 on my laptop and I back them up onto
another extrernal harddrive. After I copied the main bulk
of them every now and then I want to add some extra ones
that are on my laptop to the back up. Since I am not sure
which ones are new I select them all, hit copy and then hit
paste on the external drive. Then when it gets to a folder
that is already there it asks me the following questions:
Would you like to copy over the files that are in this
directory? Hit YES, YES TO ALL, NO, CANCEL, The problem is
if you hit yes it or yes to all it will rewrite all of the
MP3 which can take an hour. If you hit no and lets say it
is a Beatles directory which has one album in it and you
want to add two more albums. If you hit no it will skip the
whole directory, leaving out your new added albums. There
has got to be a easy way around this? Any ideas? Thanks
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You might want to take a look at this program:

SyncToy for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx

Download Details SyncToy v1.0 for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...54-c975-4814-9649-cce41af06eb7&DisplayLang=en

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:08:50 GMT from russ lavergne
I have a bunch of mp3 on my laptop and I back them up onto another extrernal
harddrive. After I copied the main bulk of them every now and then I want
to add some extra ones that are on my laptop to the back up. Since I am not
sure which ones are new I select them all, hit copy and then hit paste on
the external drive. Then when it gets to a folder that is already there it
asks me the following questions: Would you like to copy over the files that
are in this directory? Hit YES, YES TO ALL, NO, CANCEL, The problem is if
you hit yes it or yes to all it will rewrite all of the MP3 which can take
an hour. If you hit no and lets say it is a Beatles directory which has
one album in it and you want to add two more albums. If you hit no it will
skip the whole directory, leaving out your new added albums. There has got
to be a easy way around this? Any ideas?
Click to expand...

You want the REPLACE command. Run it with the /A option to add new
files without overwriting the existing ones.
 
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