Many thanks, I will give this a try.
A reply from Di [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MegaBrutal Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 4:15 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] XCOPY still 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 suggested > inserting ~ after the 7th letter of a folder name (Backup\My_Docu~\ for example) but that doesn't > work either. Any bright ideas??? and thank you! Parameters that contain long file names with spaces, should be indicated with quotation marks: XCOPY "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\*.*" "I:\Backup\My Documents\*.*" /s /h /d /r /y That should work. Regards, MegaBrutal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
