Hi guys,
I'm trying to copy some files from one location to another and then write the screen output to a file (the file will be used later on). Currently I have this:

xcopy [souce path]\*.* [destination path] /Y >c:\batch\outcome.txt

This works but if a file is in use it doesn't say that it couldn't copy that file, I have tried adding error levels into the command but then it only writes the errors out. Ideally I'd like it to write out a file something like this:

C:\batch\test\01.txt
C:\batch\test\02.bmp - Source file in Use
C:\batch\test\test.txt
C:\batch\test\testxcop.bat

The format doesn't have to be exact of course as long as you can tell which files haven't copied, any help would be much appreciated.

I think you're out of luck with xcopy, much as I like it.

This bat uses COPY and makes an error log.

If you're as bad a typist as I am, you may want to add some error checking.

::=== copyerr.bat
@echo off > error.log

if %2'==' goto :syntax

:main
set source=%1
set dest=%2
cd %source%
type nul > error.log
for /f %%F in ('dir/b/a-d') do call :copier %%F
goto :eof

:copier
copy %1 %dest% > nul
if errorlevel 1 echo %1 NO GO >> error.log
goto :eof

:syntax
echo syntax: %0 sourceDIR destinationDIR

:eof
::===

M2

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

Ahh right, thanks very much for that :D