What do you recomend me to use insted of Xcopy from DOS

[stangor]

Thanks a lot POBrien. You helped me very much. It works much faster. But what do you recommend me to use instead of Xcopy and where i can get it, because it gives me error message: invalid path and not all files and directories are copied.
Thanks
Stangor

[Nick]

xcopy does not copy hidden files!

Nick

[POBrien]

sorry to blow your posting Nick. xcopy does copy hidden files. and system and all other files and directories and etc and etc.

Stangor,

You're welcome!

Go to a dos prompt type

xcopy /? | more

you will see a list of all the switches that can be added to the xcopy command. this | symbol is achieved by holding down shift and pressing the \ space key.

enjoy

[POBrien]

what the heck. here they are

Copies files and directory trees.

XCOPY source [destination] [/A | /M] [/D[:date]] [/P] [/S [/E]] [/W]
[/C] [/I] [/Q] [/F] [/L] [/H] [/R] [/T] [/U]
[/K] [/N]

source Specifies the file(s) to copy.
destination Specifies the location and/or name of new files.
/A Copies files with the archive attribute set,
doesn't change the attribute.
/M Copies files with the archive attribute set,
turns off the archive attribute.
/D:date Copies files changed on or after the specified date.
If no date is given, copies only those files whose
source time is newer than the destination time.
/P Prompts you before creating each destination file.
/S Copies directories and subdirectories except empty ones.
/E Copies directories and subdirectories, including empty ones.
Same as /S /E. May be used to modify /T.
/W Prompts you to press a key before copying.
/C Continues copying even if errors occur.
/I If destination does not exist and copying more than one file,
assumes that destination must be a directory.
/Q Does not display file names while copying.
/F Displays full source and destination file names while copying.
/L Displays files that would be copied.
/H Copies hidden and system files also.
/R Overwrites read-only files.
/T Creates directory structure, but does not copy files. Does not
include empty directories or subdirectories. /T /E includes
empty directories and subdirectories.
/U Updates the files that already exist in destination.
/K Copies attributes. Normal Xcopy will reset read-only attributes.
/Y Overwrites existing files without prompting.
/-Y Prompts you before overwriting existing files.
/N Copy using the generated short names.


enjoy

[Nick]

'sorry to blow your posting Nick'

You're welcome!! Learn something everyday!!

Thanks ;-)

Nick

[x047093]

Us Robocopy from resource kit, it is much faster and has some cool options.

[pantezuma]

Hi!!!
If you need to manage files or copy full directories I recommend Far File Manager 1.65
You can get it from www.rarsoft.com
It's like old Norton Commander but much much better...
The fact is that it only works under Windows Dos Box... Not in pure DOS.
Hope I helped...
Bye!!!

You can copy full directories with xcopy using this parameters
xopy dir /s /e
/s copy subdirectores
/e copy empty directories