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Fast way to transfer tons of files
Name: thomasc Date: April 5, 2005 at 18:24:47 Pacific OS: Windows XP Professional CPU/Ram: Pentium II
Comment:
I need to move a large number of files from one place to another. Is there a way I can do this without manually entering all their names one after the other at the copy command?
Name: thomasc Date: April 5, 2005 at 18:26:25 Pacific
Reply:
I apologize if this is an ignorant question, but I don't use DOS much. I just need to move a lot of files (about 200) from one directory to another.
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Response Number 2
Name: jboy Date: April 5, 2005 at 18:33:20 Pacific
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Wildcards - although there may be other options available in WinXP's extended DOS simulation. In all likelihood there's a WinXP application that would work as well or better
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Response Number 3
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: April 6, 2005 at 01:18:38 Pacific
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Wildcards will help.
If you want all the files in a given directory, life gets easier.
copy somedir\ another\
If you want to MOVE them:
move somedir\*.* another\
M2
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
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Response Number 4
Name: wizard-fred Date: April 6, 2005 at 01:39:31 Pacific
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If you're using XP why bother with DOS. Just select the files, cut, select the destination, and paste. If you're moving a whole folder, the select the folder, cut and paste. 200 files is not a lot. When backing up, I move as much as 7GB (up to 50,000 files) from one computer to another over the network. Important files I copy first then delete, others I just move.
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Response Number 5
Name: thomasc Date: April 6, 2005 at 04:44:58 Pacific
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The reason I asked is that I'm going to be in a situation where I'll have to boot in DOS and won't have access to XP. So thanks for the advice.
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Response Number 6
Name: wizard-fred Date: April 6, 2005 at 08:08:51 Pacific
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If your hard drive is formatted NTFS, DOS will not see the drive partition(s). If XP is installed on a FAT formatted drive you will lose your long file names. There is no XP DOS so what version of DOS are you planning to use.
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