Re: Simple copy but getting error

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Some comments:
- What is the /G switch for? My version of xcopy.exe has no
such switch!
- If you get a "path too long" error message then you must
reduce the total length of path+file name to less than 250
characters. Place your information into your files, not into
the file names! You may have to apply this trick to access
folders that are located too deep inside your directory structure:

subst x: "d:\Data\Some Folder\Some SubFolder\Some SubSubFolder"

You can now manipulate your excessively long file/folder names
on drive X:.


"Harrison Midkiff" <HMidkiff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for replying to my post.

In order to do this, this is what I did. I want to copy the 250 GB to a
USB
hard drive attached to my computer. I created a shared folder on it and
gave my account full permissions to the folder. This was my syntax:

xcopy d:\data \\COMPUTER_NAME\data /E /C /G /H /Y

Any help would be great.



"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Harrison Midkiff" <HMidkiff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello:

I need to copy 250 GB of date from a network drive to a USB hard drive.
I
am using the normal copy/paste technique, but I am hitting a problem.
The
copy goes fine until it gets to a problem file then I get an error
message
"Cannot remove folder [NAME_OF_FILE]: The filename or extension is too
long". I tried doing a xcopy and ran into even more problems with the
syntax. The network share is on a Windows 2003 server.

Does anyone know of an technique to force this? Any help or advice
would
be
greatly appreciated.

Harrison Midkiff



Let's have a look at your xcopy syntax!






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