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Date:	Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:51:52 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: copy or xcopy only files not yet on target?

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Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote:
>
> I want to use my drive tray to copy files from failing
> old HDD to new HDD in my TP on which I have finally an
> eCS 1.1. good install. I can find no way to COPY or
> XCOPY only those files from source which either do not
> exist on target or have same date/time/file size. Is
> there a way to do this? Alternative is to copy
> tens of thousands of files when I may need only a
> few hundreds.
>
If you have only a few directories to update then a double directory
file manager will copy only changed or new files with just a few
keystrokes. You should own at least one file manager anyway. For a few
directories I use FC/2. For a whole partition I use Larson Commander
because of the statistics it provides.

For syncing two directories you also need to remove obsolete files.

Command line possibilities include:

Command Line Utilities
CSSDIR
DIRSYNC
DIRTOOLS

So far I have only used DIRSYNC.

Ray

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