Re: [Freedos-user] XCOPY still acting up in Windows XP !!??(copying to external hard drive)

2007-10-29 Thread LimeyDi
acting up in Windows XP !!??(copying to external hard drive) Hi LimeyDi, > Notice that in an attempt to figure this out I inserted underscores > between folder name words, but with or without these, I get either > "too many parameters" or "invalid path". A colleague s

Re: [Freedos-user] XCOPY still acting up in Windows XP !!?? (copying toexternal hard drive)

2007-10-29 Thread LimeyDi
#x27;s not about Windows XP's DOS window, which is something completely different! LimeyDi wrote: > XCOPY C:\Documents_and_Settings\Owner\My Documents\*.* > I:\Backup\My_Documents\*.* /s /h /d /r /y > > Notice that in an attempt to figure this out I inserted underscores > betwe

[Freedos-user] XCOPY still acting up in Windows XP !!?? (copying to external hard drive)

2007-10-29 Thread LimeyDi
I have trawled for a solution but remain mystified, and I have been a basic user of basic DOS for a few years. In the past I used XCopy successfully on a regular basis to copy the contents of the Owner\My Documents folder, with the d/ switch blank so that only changed files would be overwritten,