Dunno. If you had a *NIX system (or a Windows shell) with the 'find' command available I could do it.
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Perhaps Win7? But NONE of the options i see depicted state or imply NO copy if same (date)..
bullshit.
batch files that compare sizes and timestamps on files, I guess it's possible, but it's extremely hard to get right.
FOO.TXT 1024 08-09-12 10:11a BAR.TXT 1024 09-08-12 04:30p write a dos 3.3 batch that can determine which is newer.
It takes about 60 lines including invoking atleast two dufferent external commands (*) and a few temporary files to get somthing that only works some of the time
(*)stuff that shipped with dos but wasn't built-in
"replace /u" was is the way to go
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I do that, but the case I'm interested in would involve dragging two folders, the source and destination.
But maybe I could write a bunch of XCOPY batch files, one for each destination device/folder. Then I could drag/drop any source file onto one of those.
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Try "right click" and then "Send To". Then choose the destination.
If it is on the desktop, the "Send To" menu selection should be there.
so where's the problem?
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A command-line invoked program, or batch file, only gets one command-line string, at startup.
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There are MS-DOS utilities that actually prompt the user for any non-entered segment, such as 'source' and 'destination'.
I think Xcopy does it too.
You can write a batch file that prompts for variables, then builds things like XCOPY commands. But I'd have to type the full paths. I want to drag-and-drop, like a regular explorer copy.
I can do it with two programs/icons: drop the source folder onto the icon called FROM, and then drop the destination folder on top of TO. FROM.EXE would just save its command-line argument to a temp file that TO.EXE could pick up. I guess I'll do that.
I tried invoking XCOPY with no arguments, and it complains that it has too few parameters. It doesn't prompt.
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huh? It's not limited like that when I when I do it.
open a command-line window. (windows-r "CMD" enter)
type a command
press space
drag a folder into the window
press space
drag another folder into the window
etc
then press enter.
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huh? yourself
That's still a little clumsy, and XCOPY needs a bunch of switches on the end, too. I could write a PowerBasic program that parses the drop-in things so as to not need the typed spaces or the switches, maybe even not the final .
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-- At the command prompt, type "help xcopy|more", then look at the "/D" switch. It looks like all you'd need to do would be to type "xcopy source [destination]/D" at the command prompt in order to get exactly what you want.
tryping==errors, that's why I like FolderMatch... it tells me what matches, what doesn't, AND the DETAILS, before asking me what I want to do. ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
I'm currently using something like
xcopy c:\*.* d:\*.* /e /c /f /h /r /k /y
Some of the sources are network drives, and some people might have files open or whatever, so I want to keep going if there's an error on one file or something.
Xcopy needs a /dammit switch... copy the damned files.
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Have you ever tried XXCOPY? Some of the people at Microdyne liked it.
It's still command line driven. And it has 230 switches!
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But it will do things that xcopy wouldn't. They used it in a batch file to copy & configure the solid state disk drives for one produnct.
Be *very* wary of Windows file copy utilities, including XCOPY. They
*will* mess up the links between SFNs and LFNs, which will accelerate the normal Windows bit rot tremendously.
me.
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Really. Wow. I can hardly believe that you cannot build a simple powerbasic program for that with either GUI or CLI. Diagusting after all your ranting about how useful it is.
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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