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Ed Diarrhea
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Copy folders

#1 Post by Ed Diarrhea » 01 Jul 2011 16:45

Hi this is my first post obviously. I am trying to copy all the folders and sub folders from one location to another. I am having no luck. I am very new to batch. Can someone please help me?
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nitt
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Re: Copy folders

#2 Post by nitt » 01 Jul 2011 16:52

Ed Diarrhea wrote:Hi this is my first post obviously. I am trying to copy all the folders and sub folders from one location to another. I am having no luck. I am very new to batch. Can someone please help me?


For copying folders and subfolders you need to use XCOPY, not COPY.
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Ed Diarrhea
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Re: Copy folders

#3 Post by Ed Diarrhea » 01 Jul 2011 17:08

Hi thank you can give example please. I know not xcopy. sorry english is bad for me
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nitt
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Re: Copy folders

#4 Post by nitt » 01 Jul 2011 17:17

Ed Diarrhea wrote:Hi thank you can give example please. I know not xcopy. sorry english is bad for me


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mkdir newfolder
xcopy /e folder1 newfolder


The "/e" will make sure to copy all files and directories even if they are empty. I don't think this automatically creates a new directory, so that's why I used "mkdir" to create a new directory to copy the contents of the other one in.

So basically, this copies folder1 to newfolder.
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