I have several folders that get created on a daily basis. For example: 20091001.000 20091002.000 20091003.000 Etc... As you can see the date changes everyday for the folder name but .000 remains constant. In these folders are daily reports in PDF format. I would like the ability to copy certain pdf's (not all) within these folders to another network drive keeping the folder structure the same on the drive that copies are being stored So if the R: drive hosted folders: 20091001.000 20091002.000 20091003.000 I would want to copy the folders but only select pdfs from them to the H: drive. This wo uld be done on a daily basis Currently I am using the following script: for /d %%a in (R:\Reports\????????.000) do xcopy /e /i /-y "%%~fa" "H:\%%~nxa" This copys all the contents of the folder from one drive to the other. Is there a way to modify this to copy specific files from fthe folder? if i have files daily called A.pdf B.pdf how would i adjust the command? Any help would be appreciated Thanks

Currently I am using the following script: for /d %%a in (R:\Reports\????????.000) do xcopy /e /i /-y "%%~fa" "H:\%%~nxa" This copys all the contents of the folder from one drive to the other. Is there a way to modify this to copy specific files from fthe folder? if i have files daily called A.pdf B.pdf how would i adjust the command?

Do you only want the most recent A.pdf etc? ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

yes i was going to use the /d command to only upload changed files

Unless I'm missing the obvious, once you're current, you only need to copy the most recent folder's files. This navigates itself to the most recent folder within R:\Reports and copies all the ?.pdfs. ==================================== @echo off & setLocal enableDELAYedexpansion pushd R:\Reports for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b/ad/o-n *.000') do ( pushd "%%a" goto :done ) :done copy ?.pdf h:\ ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

Thanks for the script it works yes and no. To explain further this is more of what I want to do R:/20091001.00/a.pdf copy to > H:/20091001.00/a.pdf R:/20091002.00/a.pdf copy to > H:/20091002.00/a.pdf R:/20091003.00/a.pdf copy to > H:/20091002.00/a.pdf R:/20091004.00/a.pdf copy to > H:/20091002.00/a.pdf Pretty much want a mirror image. and for it to create the same folder structure of YYYYMMDD.000 automatically And then if the batch is run the next day, it wont try to recopy all the old folders again and only the new ones Hope that better explains it! Thanks for the assistance :)

xcopy has a couple of options that migh help: /M copies only those files that have the archive-bit set, and switches off the archive bit (thus marking them as "copied" and avoiding subsequent copying). You only need to verify that the incoming files have this bit switched on ("attrib" command shows "A" for the files.) /Ddate copies only those files newer (more recent) than the date specified after "D". this requires that the incoming files dates are correct/synchronized with your system. ps: it looks like, from viewing posts, Msft would be doing a HUGE service if it had a "mirror" utility w/various options. hey, Bill G, like my idea? HIRE ME (just kidding) (but submit only 15 million for the idea...thats nuts to you guys anyway, an i need it...