DirCopy Not Copying All Folders

[kevcox]

I'm trying to creat a backup script that copies all files from one laptop to a USB drive then copies them back to the new laptop. When creating this script I'm having a problem with getting all the folders from the "My Documents" and "Desktop" folders to copy from the old laptop to the USB Drive. I've verified it is not a space issue, security issue or file lock issue.

I'm using SciTE4 AutoIt3 Version 1.77 on Windows XP Pro client.

I've tried the following three lines of code without any success...

RunWait(@COMSPEC & ' /c xcopy '&'"'&@MyDocumentsDir&'" '&'"'&$BackupFolder&'My Documents\'&'"'&' /E /K /Q /Y /R')

DirCopy(@DesktopDir, $BackupFolder&"Desktop", 1)

RunAsWait($UserName, @ComputerName, $Password, 0, DirCopy(@DesktopDir, $BackupFolder&"Desktop",1))

Thank you in advance,

kevcox

[martin]

I'm trying to creat a backup script that copies all files from one laptop to a USB drive then copies them back to the new laptop. When creating this script I'm having a problem with getting all the folders from the "My Documents" and "Desktop" folders to copy from the old laptop to the USB Drive. I've verified it is not a space issue, security issue or file lock issue.

I'm using SciTE4 AutoIt3 Version 1.77 on Windows XP Pro client.

I've tried the following three lines of code without any success...

RunWait(@COMSPEC & ' /c xcopy '&'"'&@MyDocumentsDir&'" '&'"'&$BackupFolder&'My Documents\'&'"'&' /E /K /Q /Y /R')

DirCopy(@DesktopDir, $BackupFolder&"Desktop", 1)

RunAsWait($UserName, @ComputerName, $Password, 0, DirCopy(@DesktopDir, $BackupFolder&"Desktop",1))

Thank you in advance,

kevcox

You haven't given us enough information to know if you've made a mistake in your code or not, but you have too many quotation marks I think and maybe missing backslashes.

I have had a lot of problems with DirCopy not working though I haven't investigated, and instead I use xcopy like this

;copy complete folder
DirCreate($FullPathToDestFolder)
RunWait('xcopy~' & '" & $FullFolderPathToCopy & '"~"' & $FullPathToDestFolder & '"', $FullFolderPathToCopy, @SW_SHOW);@SW_HIDE

OR

;copy only certain files
RunWait('xcopy~' & '" & $FullFolderPathToCopy & '\*.mp3'"~"' & $FullPathToDestFolder & '"~/E','',@SW_SHOW)

Where I have used ~ to show where a space should be.