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I was hoping to write a txt file listing all files to be copied then converting it to a .bat and running it at a set time. &nbsp;Can you suggest how to do that?<br />
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I was hoping to write a txt file listing all files to be copied then converting it to a .bat and running it at a set time.  Can you suggest how to do that?



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If you are running windows 98, you can schedule the batch file, in the scheduler, of course.<br />
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To get a list of files, <br />
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go to the root directory you want to start at, then type<br />
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dir /b/s &gt;&nbsp;mybatch.bat<br />
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this will write the files, including path, to the bat file. Then all you have to<br />
do is edit the batch file to create copy statements.<br />

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If you are running windows 98, you can schedule the batch file, in the scheduler, of course.


To get a list of files,

go to the root directory you want to start at, then type

dir /b/s > mybatch.bat

this will write the files, including path, to the bat file. Then all you have to
do is edit the batch file to create copy statements.


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In addition, on to the original answer I gave you, &nbsp;the xcopy command has a &quot;D&quot; option that will cause it to only copy the files with a newer timestamp on the source drive to the target drive.
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In addition, on to the original answer I gave you,  the xcopy command has a "D" option that will cause it to only copy the files with a newer timestamp on the source drive to the target drive.

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I need to have two drives with the exact same files on them. &nbsp;Is there a way that a simple batch file can be written so that new files on one drive will be copied to another on a daily basis?<br />
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patrick
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I need to have two drives with the exact same files on them.  Is there a way that a simple batch file can be written so that new files on one drive will be copied to another on a daily basis?


patrick

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Batch files are text files containing a script of commands that are executed by the command interpreter on DOS, OS/2 and Windows systems. Most commonly, they are used to perform a series of functions that are repeated -- copying a set of files created daily with one step, for example.