COPY NEW FILES ONLY WINDOWS

To also copy the files, simply remove the /XF * switch. This copies an empty directory (folder) tree, preserving all files’ timestamps (which is the default behaviour) and all folders’ timestamps (with the /DCOPY:T switch). Not sure about xcopy, but as I replied here on 5, folders’ timestamps can be left unchanged with Robocopy. Is there way to change folder’s modified date based on the last modified file’s date in the folder? So i can keep my folders like old times.” “After moving my files to another drive my folder’s modified date is updated. Perhaps you actually used the special “” quotation marks (93 and 94 in hexadecimal – I copy pasted from your message to WinHex to verify) instead or the regular ” quotation marks (22 in hexadecimal) ? I tried with those special quotation marks and I get : “Nombre de paramètres non valide”. ** I just tested : a xcopy command or a robocopy command actually works with this folder name without changing the codepage (default is 850 which is “latin multilangue I” according to WinHex), so I’m not sure what went wrong in this case.

I always use “chcp 1252” in my robocopy scripts, to deal with accentuated characters in french, but I’m not sure if it includes this particular character, which may be available in Unicode only. It could be solved either by temporarily removing the problematic character (or replacing it with a regular “-” character), or by putting a “chcp” command (change codepage) before the xcopy command (or robocopy – see my message posted on ). Most likely it’s because of the special caracter “–” in the folders’s names. Kinda late but it may be useful to someone… Job done, you should now see your copied folder structure ready to start filing into for the new year. You can also use the /E option to include empty folders in the copy (by default empty folders will not be copied). It’s the /T option that copies just the folder structure not the files.

COPY NEW FILES ONLY WINDOWS

Now open a Windows command window and run the following command. Now simply create your new folder (under which you want to duplicate the folder structure) Here’s a simplified version of what my filing structure looks like: So you will be up and going with your new folder structure for the tax year and continue filing. Using this technique, only the folder structure is copied (not the actual files). To save time and keep your filing structure consistent you can quickly copy the entire structure (including all subfolders) with the following technique. If you save your important files in a folder structure per financial year, then you will be ready to create that new folder for the new tax year. +++ b/hello 08:16:11.306761686 -1 +0,0 b is on a remote box and you need to see the differences, you'll need to create a local copy of b and then you can diff.Here’s my tip to start the financial year off with some organisation. If you need to see the differences between the directories you can use diff: $ /bin/diff -aurN a b We can see no changes were actually made to b: $ ls b Total size is 4 speedup is 0.03 (DRY RUN) Sent 103 bytes received 22 bytes 250.00 bytes/sec to see what would happen: $ rsync -rv -append-verify -dry-run a/ b Now perform modifications to the contents of a: $ echo 123 > a/hello Let's set up a sandpit for testing: $ cd /tmp If you only need to see which files will be affected, without seeing the differences between them, you can use the -dry-run option to rsync.

Copy new files only