efc93 Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 Hi All, Just a quick question, on whether anyone has an idea on how to set up a macro that checks the status of files / folders on an external drive, and if the file on the original drive has changed, then this is updated on that external drive. The situation we have is, we wish to backup from a network drive, to an external, USB HDD and without having the throughput of all of the data copying every time, wanted to only copy across the files that have changed. Appreciate any help you can offer ! Cheers, TG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 Hello! Assuming that you are using Windows, have you looked at the built-in xcopy command? This should do the job. And you can create macros to run different scenarios for different drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randallc Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 (edited) Hi, TG, I had asked this question before; Xcopy emulation See Floyd and Joe have comments; Xcopy2 I think I have an ME Xcopy working well? - it copies only newer files into the destination directory, ( in folders as well, and not empty directories) (at end of file is whole macro in "Run Macro in Variable" 2 lines as well) Best, Randall (cf - XcopyGUI - on other thread for more options) XcopyGUIdos XcopyME.mxe Edited March 10, 2005 by randallc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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