Is there any way to copy a folder and its contents from one from one directory to another? Xcopy c:\myfile1 f:\myfile2 will only copy the contents of myfile1 to myfile2. I'd like myfile1 to be a subfolder of myfile2 as part of the copy. Is there a way for me to do that? Thanks..

try a trailing backslash to final destination. Instead of xcopy C:\myfile1 F:\myfile2 try xcopy C:\myfile1 F:\myfile2\ Everyone wants a faster PC

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, doing the xcopy with the trailing backslash still only copies the contents of the source folder. Dave

xcopy uses the /s (sub-directories) switch. type xcopy /? for its use should be xcopy C:\myfile1 F:\myfile2 /s

/s does copy the subdirectories to myfile2, but I want to copy the whole myfile1 source folder to myfile2. So in the end, myfile2 would have a subfolder called myfile1 in it. Dave

xcopy c:\myfile1 f:\myfile2\myfile1 /e /i Expert: someone who reads the manual when no-one's looking

That'll work! Is it possible to write a batch file routine that will compare the files in source (a) and destination (b) directories, add files from a that aren't in b, and overwrite files in b that match files in a, and delete the files in b that aren't in a? Xcopy seems to be able to do all of the above except delete the files in the destination (b) that aren't in the source (a). I guess I could run a delete routine: del f:\myfile2 *.* before running the xcopy routine. Dave