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I have some files that need to be copied to a directory on a schedule. All the files have the same name but the extension increments (I have no control over this, it drives me mad)

I've tried running xcopy /C /D /Y /I "C:\Temp\Source" "C:\Temp\Destination"

But I get a message it can't find the file.

Right now I've got a bit of a bodge in place that uses an excluded file extension list and copies anything that isn't in the list but I feel like it might be able to be done better.

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In your command line:

 xcopy /C /D /Y /I "C:\Temp\Source" "C:\Temp\Destination"

as far as I can see, you haven't told xcopy what to copy. If you're trying to copy everything in C:\Temp\*.* then try:

 xcopy C:\Temp\*.* C:\Temp\Destination\ /C /D /Y /I

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You should check out robocopy, it is much more powerful than xcopy. You can easily move files with /MOV or /MOVE.

To move files only (delete from source after copying)

robocopy from_folder to_folder files_to_copy /MOV

To move files and directories (delete from source after copying)

robocopy from_folder to_folder files_to_copy /MOVE

http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html

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