Re: Copying files frustration
- From: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:29:04 -0500
Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:08:50 GMT from russ lavergne
<uriahsky@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I have a bunch of mp3 on my laptop and I back them up onto another extrernal
> harddrive. After I copied the main bulk of them every now and then I want
> to add some extra ones that are on my laptop to the back up. Since I am not
> sure which ones are new I select them all, hit copy and then hit paste on
> the external drive. Then when it gets to a folder that is already there it
> asks me the following questions: Would you like to copy over the files that
> are in this directory? Hit YES, YES TO ALL, NO, CANCEL, The problem is if
> you hit yes it or yes to all it will rewrite all of the MP3 which can take
> an hour. If you hit no and lets say it is a Beatles directory which has
> one album in it and you want to add two more albums. If you hit no it will
> skip the whole directory, leaving out your new added albums. There has got
> to be a easy way around this? Any ideas?
You want the REPLACE command. Run it with the /A option to add new
files without overwriting the existing ones.
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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
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