Tech help

[marjai]

I want to run a batch job in Windows XP that copies my My Docs folder to Z:/. I don't know how to handle the long file names. Here's the command I'm using in the batch file:

xcopy /e /y /h C:\Documents and Settings\marjai\My Documents\ z:\MyDocBU\

I think the long file name is screwing things up. How do I make it work?

Comments

[cardinalximinez]

Try quotation marks:

xcopy /e /y /h "C:\Documents and Settings\marjai\My Documents\" "z:\MyDocBU\"

[marjai]

you know what's embarassing.
the quotes worked when I added "*.*" after My Docs...
Old Skool.

[cardinalximinez]

*grin*

[knobody]

marshall found me a program called ycopy. handy with my failing hd (yes, i *still* haven't reformatted it) because it can save a list of files that didn't copy correctly.

[delwin]

you can also use the 8.3 versions of the paths.