Hi Mark,
It's Win7. I had no idea Robocopy even existed. Since it's command line
driven, I can automate building a paragraph to drive it. I'll certainly
check it and richcopy out.
Learn something new every day... I consider any day I don't either learn
something new or catch hell about something a total waste. SWMBO makes
sure very few of my days are wasted. :-)
Thanks!
Charlie
On 07-28-2014 5:37 PM, Mark Hogden wrote:
If this is SERVER 2003 or above or windows 7 or above then ROBOCOPY
would be my choice.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee851678.aspx
There's also a richcopy(which I have not tried) that is multi-threaded
and supports command line options.
*From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
Behalf Of *Charlie Noah
*Sent:* Monday, July 28, 2014 3:10 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: Apparent COPY Limitation
Wouldn't cygwin be a bit of overkill for what I want to do?
On 07-28-2014 4:48 PM, Daniel Klein wrote:
Another option would be to install cygwin and use the unix-like
'cp' command.
Dan
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Charlie Noah <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Tony, you and Simon have given me an idea. Since I'll be doing
this again from time to time, it's probably worth the effort to
build an EXECUTE.DOS.CMD utility, which would prefix a DOS command
with char(255): k and make it do as OS execute. Then I could
structure a paragraph line like
EXECUTE.DOS.CMD copy "e:\TinyBearMarketing\GOLDCREST\Images\Purple
Martin Decoys & Starling Excluder Doors\PME2.jpg"
e:\TinyBearMarketing\GOLDCREST\Images\Export
substituting each image name. I think this might be easier than
going the short-directory name route, although that's a trick I'll
need to remember. Never know when it will come in handy.
There are about 16,000 image files, and I was planning to do them
about 1000 at a time. While they're in the destination folder I am
going to resize them, and I'm not sure what 16,000 files at once
would do to the resizer program - or a paragraph or batch file,
either, for that matter. It might be an interesting experiment.
Thanks,
Charlie
On 07-28-2014 3:34 PM, Tony Gravagno wrote:
I dunno if jBase is the same as D3 in this regard but when
using the DBMS Copy verb I think the data is pulled into the
DBMS first before it's written back to the OS. That's going to
be Very slow. It would be better to use the DBMS to script
command-line operations. You can write a large script and
execute it all once. You can do an Execute "!Copy..." of
individual files. Or you can create a huge OS command and then
do a single Execute.
And I could be completely off... :)
As to paths with spaces in them, I wrote a utility a while
back which retrieves the short-directory name using the
Windows DIR command. Then I used that in my commands to
eliminate grief from spaces. I don't think that's necessary
here but if you need to do that it's possible.
HTH
T
On Monday, July 28, 2014 1:18 PM, Charlie Noah wrote:
I have several thousand image files I want to copy from
various Windows folders (a couple hundred) to one Windows
folder. My plan was to cheat and build a paragraph to copy the
image files. The problem comes when the source folder name has
spaces in it. It seems COPY doesn't like them, and truncates
the file name (actuallythe folder name) at the first space.
Example:
COPY "e:\TinyBearMarketing\GOLDCREST\Images\Purple Martin
Decoys & Starling Excluder Doors\" PME2.jpg
results in:
** Error [ 201 ] **
Unable to open file "e:\TinyBearMarketing\GOLDCREST\Images\Purple
I've tried with and without quotes, so that isn't it. Has
anyone found a way to overcome this, or a better way to do it?
The reason I'm using COPY (well, actually COPYTO, a one-line
COPY frontend) because I can build the COPY statements in a
list driven JQL report.
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