Re: How to suppress prompting and not overwrite an existing destination file in XCOPY?

From: Nathan McNulty (525676_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:18:25 -0700

I haven't tested this yet, but does XCOPY source destination /Y -n work?

Nathan McNulty

Dmitriy Kopnichev wrote:
> It is strange that Windows XP Professional by itself can't copy files
> without overwriting and prompting!
> "Carrie Garth" <PostInGroup@invalid.cxg> wrote in message
> news:eGiVZiWXEHA.1356@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
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>>||||| "Dmitriy Kopnichev" <kopn@hotbox.ruDELETE>
>>||||| wrote in message news:uPFftiJXEHA.716@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl
>>||||| Hello How to suppress prompting and not overwrite an
>>||||| existing destination file in XCOPY? There's no this in the
>>||||| XCOPY help or XCOPY /?
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>>|||| "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
>>|||| <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> ||||
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>>news:%23b8EABKXEHA.3640@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl
>>|||| Not sure, as I I haven't used xcopy for ages - robocopy
>>|||| from the resource kit will do this nicely for you, tho.
>>
>>||| "Dmitriy Kopnichev" <kopn@hotbox.ruDELETE>
>>||| wrote in message news:e%23l5nBOXEHA.4064@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl
>>||| Thanks for your reply! How to get the resource kit or the
>>||| robocopy?
>>
>>|| "Carrie Garth" <PostInGroup@invalid.cxg>
>>|| wrote in message news:e5822QSXEHA.712@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl
>>|| <SNIP> Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools Help
>>||
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> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/robocopy.asp
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>>|| <SNIP> Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
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> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&DisplayLang=en
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>>|| <SNIP>
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>>| "Dmitriy Kopnichev" <kopn@hotbox.ruDELETE>
>>| wrote in message news:eDLxmmVXEHA.3716@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl
>>| Thanks for your reply!
>>| How to get the Robocopy_exe Robust File Copy Utility, not
>>| to download all the Resource Kit Tools 12 mb file?
>>
>>Sorry. But I do not think that you can download
>>robocopy.exe separately from the Resource Kit Tools.
>>
>>An alternative tool with a great deal of flexibility is XXCopy.
>>This tool is freeware for personal usage, is packaged as a
>>*.zip file for download, and is only 244 KB zipped.
>>
>>Note that XXCopy has hundreds of switches and takes
>>some practice, but there is a great deal of documentation and
>>support (gotta love it!)
>>
>>For the main Web Page for XXCopy see:
>>
>>XXCOPY, a Versatile File Management Utility
>>--- Boldly Extended Xcopy
>>http://www.xxcopy.com/
>>
>>For Guidance and Reference (Technical Bulletins)
>>http://www.xxcopy.com/index.html#tbul
>>
>>To download the XXCopy help (*.chm) file:
>> http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy.chm
>>
>>To read the XXCOPY Discussion Group:
>>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy
>>
>>To view the numerous NG postings from the author of
>>XXCOPY, Kan Yabumoto:
>>http://www.google.com/groups?&q=author%3AKan+author%3AYabumoto
>>
>>And if I understand correctly what you are trying to do...
>>
>>You have a backup of files from a certain folder, say
>>C:\My Documents, in another folder, say D:\backup.
>>And you want to be able to backup brand new files
>>only (from C:\My Documents to D:\backup). That is,
>>you do not want to overwrite existing files. And you
>>do not want to be prompted as to such. If that is
>>correct then use XXCopy with the /BB switch.
>>For example:
>>
>>xxcopy "c:\My Documents" d:\backup\ /BB
>>
>>Note that I may have misunderstood what you
>>are trying to do. And I am not an expert in the use
>>of XXCopy (or any command line tool for that
>>matter). So if you decided to use my command
>>please test the command on a temp directory with
>>temp files before you actually use it on your
>>valuable data.
>>
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