XCOPY

XCOPY  You can still copy your files as in the old days by using DOS (CMD) That is **XCOPY **. Through this command, you can customize the copying of files in a number of ways. If you need to copy new files into a folder. For this, the xcopy command has the ** /d ** option, which lets you specify the date. To access the Windows **Command Prompt **, where the following commands are entered, hold the Windows key and click the R key (**Win+R **). This will open **Run **. There, you type **cmd ** and then hit the **<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Enter ** key, and the Command Prompt will open. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To understand how to use this **<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">xcopy ** with the **<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">/d ** option, here is an example. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If you have some files in my D drive, and want to copy the file created after 10/23/2010 into the babyphotos folder in your C drive. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The syntax for the XCOPY command is:- **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">xcopy /d:date, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> which you type into the DOS screen after the Prompt ( Chevron) ** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In this syntax, the argument means the source directory of the files you want to copy and the argument means the destination directory, i.e. the folder where you want to copy them to. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If you implement the above <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Your files will be copied. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">These will be ones created on or after 10/23/2010. If this is the specified DATE <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If the files you are trying copy already exist in the destination folder, you will be prompted to overwrite the file in the source directory. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When you use this command, do remember that in the days of DOS, spaces in directory or folder names ** __were not allowed.__ ** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Therefore, the XCOPY command does not support them. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">You will get an error message <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-no-proof: yes;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The xcopy command has a number of other options that might be useful for you in the future. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To learn more about them, access the DOS help by typing ** <span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">help xcopy **<span style="color: black; font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.