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From: MGGP (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/25/04


Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 12:49:50 -0700

Am not aware of any file-number limitation on XCOPY, have
used it a lot without seeing that. However, for your
purposes, you might look at ROBOCOPY, it has some features
that might help cut down on the actual number of files
that you have to copy. It's on the NT4 Resource Disc,
probably available (look on Google or the Microsoft sites)
for download somewhere.

Good Luck !

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>I've created a batch file using xcopy to backup my files
>from my desktop computer to a Maxtor removeable drive.
>Everything seems to be running OK but I was wondering if
>xcopy has an inbuilt limit as it seems to only copy 10288
>files. Is this a limitation and if so is there an easy
>way around it (i.e. not having to copy individual folders
>to cut down the file numbers)?
>
>Thanks for the help
>
>Dunner
>.
>



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