Hi everyone, I wanna make a batch file so i can schedule it in windows. Most part works. Just not the copy to the directory. I got problems with directories with spaces in it. Trying to solve that made more problems. Im also not sure if the copy routine works because i get the error everytime :) Here is the code. And below the text file is use as source. @echo off for /F "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%A in ('date /t') do ( set Dow=%%A&set MM=%%B&set DD=%%C&set YYYY=%%D) set tdir=%DD%%MM%%YYYY% if exist i:\backup\%tdir%\ goto End if not exist i:\backup\%tdir%\ md "i:\backup\%tdir%" for /F "usebackq eol=; " %%A in (i:\backup\list.txt) do xcopy /E /V %%A %tdir% :End set tdir= set Dow= set MM= set DD= set YYYY= set uur= set mi= Text file (list.txt) C:\Documents and Settings\Dennis\Favorites\'; I:\Backup\boe\

Hi Dennis, you are asking a NT (WinNT/2K/XP) batch file programming + Windows XP schedule question, but this is DOS forum. So you have asked your question in a *wrong* forum. Please note that Windows 2000 does not include "DOS". The "Command Prompt" in Win2K is just the NT (WinNT/2K/XP) system console, which is NOT DOS. Also, DOS batch and NT batch are different batch languages. Your NT batch scripts above will NOT work in DOS at all! For example, the following NT batch command is totally unacceptable in DOS: "for /F "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%A in ('date /t') do (set Dow=%%A&set MM=%%B&set DD=%%C&set YYYY=%%D)" Below is the *quotation* from the warning messages of this forum: "DO NOT post questions related to NT Batch scripting on this forum. Use the Programming forum. Use the Windows NT, 2000 or XP forum for questions regarding the Windows NT, 2000 or XP "DOS" command prompt." For more information about the "Command Prompt" (Win32 Console) in WinNT/2K/XP, you may read this page: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/stewartb/cmdprompt.html

OK. This thread has been redirected to the Windows 2000 Forum: http://www.computing.net/windows2000/wwwboard/forum/56431.html