Xcopy help please

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Jack Gillis

I have an old fashioned batch file I use very often under XP to do a backup
of My
Documents to a USB Flash Drive.

It contains, among other things, this statement and works just fine and has
so for years.

xcopy "d:\My Documents\*.*" "U:\My Documents\" /D /Y /s

I have added many MP3 files to My Music and there is not room for them on
the USB Drive. Have tried to use the /EXCLUDE parameter tacked on to the
end of the statement but cannot get it to work. I keep getting 'parse' error
or 'Cannot find the files I a trying to exclude.

Will someone help me exclude My Documents\My Music from the copying, please?

Thank you.
 
"Jack Gillis" <XXXXXXXX@widomaker.com> wrote in message
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>I have an old fashioned batch file I use very often under XP to do a backup
>of My
> Documents to a USB Flash Drive.
>
> It contains, among other things, this statement and works just fine and
> has
> so for years.
>
> xcopy "d:\My Documents\*.*" "U:\My Documents\" /D /Y /s
>
> I have added many MP3 files to My Music and there is not room for them on
> the USB Drive. Have tried to use the /EXCLUDE parameter tacked on to the
> end of the statement but cannot get it to work. I keep getting 'parse'
> error
> or 'Cannot find the files I a trying to exclude.
>
> Will someone help me exclude My Documents\My Music from the copying,
> please?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
Try this:

xcopy /D /Y /s /c "d:\My Documents\*.*" "U:\My Documents\"
/exclude:c:\Exclude.txt

The file c:\Exclude.txt must contain the string .MP3 (and perhaps
others too).
 
"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Jack Gillis" <XXXXXXXX@widomaker.com> wrote in message
> news:ulV4laJyHHA.5204@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>I have an old fashioned batch file I use very often under XP to do a
>>backup of My
>> Documents to a USB Flash Drive.
>>
>> It contains, among other things, this statement and works just fine and
>> has
>> so for years.
>>
>> xcopy "d:\My Documents\*.*" "U:\My Documents\" /D /Y /s
>>
>> I have added many MP3 files to My Music and there is not room for them on
>> the USB Drive. Have tried to use the /EXCLUDE parameter tacked on to the
>> end of the statement but cannot get it to work. I keep getting 'parse'
>> error
>> or 'Cannot find the files I a trying to exclude.
>>
>> Will someone help me exclude My Documents\My Music from the copying,
>> please?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
> Try this:
>
> xcopy /D /Y /s /c "d:\My Documents\*.*" "U:\My Documents\"
> /exclude:c:\Exclude.txt
>
> The file c:\Exclude.txt must contain the string .MP3 (and perhaps
> others too).
>

Thank you very much. I didn't realize the argument for the /EXCLUDE
parameter was supposed to be a file name. I misread the Xcopy /? on that
point.
 
"Jack Gillis" <XXXXXXXX@widomaker.com> wrote in message
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> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
> news:%23uH5GvJyHHA.1456@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Jack Gillis" <XXXXXXXX@widomaker.com> wrote in message
>> news:ulV4laJyHHA.5204@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>I have an old fashioned batch file I use very often under XP to do a
>>>backup of My
>>> Documents to a USB Flash Drive.
>>>
>>> It contains, among other things, this statement and works just fine and
>>> has
>>> so for years.
>>>
>>> xcopy "d:\My Documents\*.*" "U:\My Documents\" /D /Y /s
>>>
>>> I have added many MP3 files to My Music and there is not room for them
>>> on
>>> the USB Drive. Have tried to use the /EXCLUDE parameter tacked on to
>>> the
>>> end of the statement but cannot get it to work. I keep getting 'parse'
>>> error
>>> or 'Cannot find the files I a trying to exclude.
>>>
>>> Will someone help me exclude My Documents\My Music from the copying,
>>> please?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> xcopy /D /Y /s /c "d:\My Documents\*.*" "U:\My Documents\"
>> /exclude:c:\Exclude.txt
>>
>> The file c:\Exclude.txt must contain the string .MP3 (and perhaps
>> others too).
>>
>
> Thank you very much. I didn't realize the argument for the /EXCLUDE
> parameter was supposed to be a file name. I misread the Xcopy /? on that
> point.
>

I didn't either until I tried it myself. Thanks for the feedback.
 
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