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zaphod:
The standard format I use is:

xcopy "<from dir>" "<to dir>" /s /k /d /y

knave:

--- Quote from: zaphod on October 04, 2007, 04:13:49 pm ---The standard format I use is:

xcopy "<from dir>" "<to dir>" /s /k /d /y

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LOL  :dunno so I don't have to go look them up can you define the attributes you are using?

Thanks

boykster:
to "look those up" open a cmd prompt and type "xcopy /?"

/s = copy directories and subdirectories (except empty ones)
/k = copy attributes
/d = basically means copy all "new" files....
/y = supresses prompting for overwriting files....

shmokes:
Check out www.foldershare.com

It's freaking awesome.  It used to cost money, but Microsoft bought them recently and made it free.  Anyway, you just specify what folders you want to be synced and it does it automatically.  It always runs, but it's tiny I haven't noticed any slowdown, even on my three-year-old laptop, that was comparatively slow when I got it cos I bought for portability not speed.

But, yeah.  The program is really great.  My problem was that when I'm home, I do all my homework on my desktop, but at school, I do it all on my laptop.  I'm always transferring files over the network from one to the other, but it was getting to where the Law School folder on one was looking fairly different from the Law School folder on the other, and I couldn't remember which computer had the most recent version of a file, etc.  So I set up this foldershare thing, and now the folders are always identical.  I tested the sync by creating a new text file in the folder and it showed up on the other computer within about 10 seconds or so.  It works in both directions, so regardless of which computer I'm working on, the changes will be reflected on the other one. 

As if all that weren't enough, as an added benefit, I can now go to the foldershare.com website and access the entire contents of my hard drives from anywhere that I have internet access. 

Oh yeah . . . you can also share a folder and then give invite anybody else to access it through the foldershare.com website. 

Did I mention it's free?

crashwg:

--- Quote from: shmokes on October 04, 2007, 06:50:11 pm ---Check out www.foldershare.com
etc...

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Ya forgot to mention that the files are transferred through the internet and not a home network.  I imagine that this would work out pretty well for those with broadband and/or very small files they want to synchronize.  Unfortunately, I'm on dial-up right now and want to sync sometimes hundreds of megs, like when I upload my digi-cam pics.

For my purposes, I'll still be working on getting xcopy to do what I want...

Right now I'm stuck on copying only newly added files and/or newly edited ones.
After that I've got to figure out batch files!  ;D

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