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Guest yawnmoth
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If I'm copying a large directory and have to stop midway through,

restarting is kinda a pain. I can either overwrite everything or I

can manually click 'No - do not overwrite' for each and every item.

Maybe there's a command line option that'd make this easier?

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Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)
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Re: copying files, ignoring all the ones that already exist

 

 

"yawnmoth" <terra1024@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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> If I'm copying a large directory and have to stop midway through,

> restarting is kinda a pain. I can either overwrite everything or I

> can manually click 'No - do not overwrite' for each and every item.

> Maybe there's a command line option that'd make this easier?

>

 

Yes, there is:

 

xcopy.exe /d

Guest Ayush
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Re: copying files, ignoring all the ones that already exist

 

[yawnmoth] wrote-:

> If I'm copying a large directory and have to stop midway through,

> restarting is kinda a pain. I can either overwrite everything or I

> can manually click 'No - do not overwrite' for each and every item.

> Maybe there's a command line option that'd make this easier?

>

 

Hold down Shift Key while clicking No.

 

 

Good Luck, Ayush.

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Guest Patrick Keenan
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Re: copying files, ignoring all the ones that already exist

 

"yawnmoth" <terra1024@yahoo.com> wrote in message

news:1184364134.231517.123760@g12g2000prg.googlegroups.com...

> If I'm copying a large directory and have to stop midway through,

> restarting is kinda a pain. I can either overwrite everything or I

> can manually click 'No - do not overwrite' for each and every item.

> Maybe there's a command line option that'd make this easier?

 

Check out FileSync from http://www.fileware.com

 

HTH

-pk

Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
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Re: copying files, ignoring all the ones that already exist

 

yawnmoth <terra1024@yahoo.com> wrote:

> If I'm copying a large directory and have to stop midway through,

> restarting is kinda a pain. I can either overwrite everything or I

> can manually click 'No - do not overwrite' for each and every item.

> Maybe there's a command line option that'd make this easier?

 

I personally like robocopy from the resource kit (download from MS ....)

 

robocopy c:\blah d:\blah /e /r:1 /w:1

 

(robocopy /??? will give you all the parameters)


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