Windows – Batch File to Copy Files Between Folders

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My scanner software puts it's file into YYYY_MM_DD subfolders in C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Enrico\Eigene Dateien\Eigene Bilder\MP Navigator EX. The files are all JPEG files.

Now I need to copy them out of the virtual machine, into a shared drive which is called E:.

I would like to copy the subfolders into the shared drive, so that I have those date folders there. If a new picture is added to today's folder, it should be copied as well.

On Linux, I would just use rsync -avE for this.

How can I do this with a plain batch file in XP and 7?

Best Answer

You can use xcopy to copy entire directories (including subdirectories).

The syntax is:

xcopy source destination /S

where the /S switch includes non-empty directories (/E copies empty directories as well).

There are a couple of switches that serve as a backup solution:

/M copies only changed files (archive attribute set) and unsets the attribute.
/D copies only those files whose source time is newer than the destination time.

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XCopy "src" "dest" /T

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You need to place double-quotes (") around your paths that contain, or may contain, spaces or other special characters. To be safe, I always quote all paths in scripts, just in case. Also, you want to remove the quotes from around the variable values that will later be components in other paths. So, remove the quotes from the set date line and add them to the next two lines.

So your script should be:

@echo off
set date=%date:~7,2%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~10,4%
mkdir "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\%date%"
copy "%USERPROFILE%\desktop\*.txt" "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\%date%"
pause

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