DirCopy

[ACalcutt]

I am trying to use the dir copy command to do a file backup/sync

i tried

DirCopy( "X:", "C:\Documents and Settings\Andrew\Desktop\synclocal")

DirCopy( "X:\", "C:\Documents and Settings\Andrew\Desktop\synclocal")

DirCopy( "X:\Folder", "C:\Documents and Settings\Andrew\Desktop\synclocal")

non of them have seems to work. X: is a mapped network drive

[BigDod]

I am trying to use the dir copy command to do a file backup/sync

i tried

DirCopy( "X:", "C:\Documents and Settings\Andrew\Desktop\synclocal")

DirCopy( "X:\", "C:\Documents and Settings\Andrew\Desktop\synclocal")

DirCopy( "X:\Folder", "C:\Documents and Settings\Andrew\Desktop\synclocal")

non of them have seems to work. X: is a mapped network drive

Have you tried making the destination somewhere other than the desktop, I seem to remember someone else with a similar problem.

[Valuater]

i use this for "talking" to another drive on the network

"\\computer-name\c on stelth\tsdata\"

8)

[ACalcutt]

i cant even get this to work

DirCopy( "C:\sync", "C:\syncfolder")

there is 1 text file in the c:\sync and c:\syncfolder has nothing....if i run that comman i still have the same thing. am i misunderstanding this function or should it do like i think and copy the text file to c:\syncfolder

i was using FileCopy at first...but i need to copy subdirs also...and filecopy doesn't do that

Edited September 21, 2005 by ACalcutt

[Jos]

try DirCopy( "C:\sync", "C:\syncfolder",1)

[BigDod]

i cant even get this to work

DirCopy( "C:\sync", "C:\syncfolder")

there is 1 text file in the c:\sync and c:\syncfolder has nothing....if i run that comman i still have the same thing. am i misunderstanding this function or should it do like i think and copy the text file to c:\syncfolder

i was using FileCopy at first...but i need to copy subdirs also...and filecopy doesn't do that

It works for me, but FileCopy should also work if you use the correct flag.

[ACalcutt]

try DirCopy( "C:\sync", "C:\syncfolder",1)

that did work...but i dont want to overwrite existing files because i am using it to sync mp3 files in a car pc when the wireless connection gets an IP address. this is the only part of the script that wasn't working right

i am guessing its not working without overwrite because the folder exists and its set not to overwrite?

*edit* i confirmed that if I delete C:\syncfolder

DirCopy( "C:\sync", "C:\syncfolder") does work

anything else i could do so it won't transfer all these files every time.

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About the filecopy comment. it worked to copy the files using

FileCopy(X:\*.*, C:\syncfolder) but it ignores the dirs...what would i use to make it copy the dirs also?

Edited September 21, 2005 by ACalcutt

[Valuater]

maybe like this

DirGetSize(@HomeDrive & "\Temp\")

If @error= 1 Then

DirCreate(@HomeDrive & "\Temp\")

EndIf

FileCopy(X:\*.*, (@HomeDrive & "\Temp\")

???

8)

[BigDod]

FileCopy(X:\*.*, C:\syncfolder) but it ignores the dirs...what would i use to make it copy the dirs also?

FileCopy(X:\*.*, C:\syncfolder,8)

[ACalcutt]

just curios...where did you get that flag from...in the help file i only see 0 for default and 1 for overwrite

[Valuater]

just curios...where did you get that flag from...in the help file i only see 0 for default and 1 for overwrite

FileCopy

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Copies one or more files.

FileCopy ( "source", "dest" [, flag] )

Parameters

source The source path of the file(s) to copy. Wildcards are supported.

dest The destination path of the copied file(s).

flag [optional] this flag determines whether to overwrite files if they already exist.

Can be a combination of the following:

0 = (default) do not overwrite existing files

1 = overwrite existing files

8 = Create destination directory structure if it doesn't exist (See Remarks).

8)

[BigDod]

just curios...where did you get that flag from...in the help file i only see 0 for default and 1 for overwrite

You are reading the help file for the release version, we are reading the Beta Help File.

[ACalcutt]

You are reading the help file for the release version, we are reading the Beta Help File.

so i am guessing i need the beta version for this command to work properly...because using 8 didn't seem to copy the folders either....i will download the beta

[ACalcutt]

I found a small commandline utility that does what i need called fsync...its a 76k standalone exe file...comman line ...

so RunWait("fsync.exe X:\ C:\syncfolder /S") does what i need

or more specific in my program its more like this

DriveMapAdd( $MapPath, $NetworkPath)

$sync = "fsync.exe " & """" & $MapPath & """" & " " & """" & $LocalPath & """" & " /S"

RunWait($sync)