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MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync
I had moved my Docs to an external USB drive (years ago),
now I am finding the dir dupl in both drives and not in sync. How can I sync and move to external? I totally forgot the command to move a MyDocs component to ext drive - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm facebook.com/vasjpan2 - linkedin.com/in/vasjpan02 - biostrategist.com ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- |
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MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync
Figured out it is "Properties"
But how do I sync? (cut & paste)? and why did I get (and prevent) duplication? A few days ago, the USB plug for the Ext Drive was partially disconnected with the drive dangling. But that wouldn't boot, so how would it have moved files? *+-I had moved my Docs to an external USB drive (years ago), *+-now I am finding the dir dupl in both drives and not in sync. *+-How can I sync and move to external? *+-I totally forgot the command to move a MyDocs component to ext drive *+- - = - *+- Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus *+- blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm *+- facebook.com/vasjpan2 - linkedin.com/in/vasjpan02 - biostrategist.com *+- ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm facebook.com/vasjpan2 - linkedin.com/in/vasjpan02 - biostrategist.com ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- |
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MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync
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Figured out it is "Properties" But how do I sync? (cut & paste)? and why did I get (and prevent) duplication? A few days ago, the USB plug for the Ext Drive was partially disconnected with the drive dangling. But that wouldn't boot, so how would it have moved files? *+-I had moved my Docs to an external USB drive (years ago), *+-now I am finding the dir dupl in both drives and not in sync. *+-How can I sync and move to external? *+-I totally forgot the command to move a MyDocs component to ext drive SyncToy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncToy https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=15155 Robocopy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pre...ectedfrom=MSDN ******* Robocopy is power, as well as being dangerous. It is a tool-of-choice for erasing disk content, by using the ?MIR ("Mirror") option. If you mirror an empty folder to a partition, it will remove all the files on that partition. When you first use Robocopy from the command line, do *not* practice on your C: drive. Make some separate partitions for practice on a hard drive. Perhaps make a D: and E: using NTFS formatting. Then you can test that D: testfolder gets copied to E:\testfolder Create D:\testfolder and put some files in it. Then test like this robocopy D:\testfolder E:\testfolder /mir Verify that the folder on E contains the same files as D did. Edit a file in the D testfolder, and save it, so that the creation date is updated. Run the mirror command again. robocopy D:\testfolder E:\testfolder /mir Only the newly modified file in D: gets copied to E: , removing the old copy on E: . Be *very very careful* with Robocopy. *Do not* copy/paste commands into the Command Prompt window containing robocopy as the command. Sometimes, the mouse Copy operation you did, fails to work, and the Paste buffer contains wrong information. Pasting that can result in a deleted partition. You must be *extra cautious* with this tool. I've only lost around, oh, 1GB of files because of this! Any synchronization tool is dangerous. You have been warned. ******* SyncToy has a GUI and does similar things. ******* There are other tools, like XXCOPY but I've never used it for any purpose here. That's before my generation. Paul |
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MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync
Thanks
- = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm facebook.com/vasjpan2 - linkedin.com/in/vasjpan02 - biostrategist.com ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- |
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MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync
Any clue how it got unsynced? wrote: *+- Figured out it is "Properties" *+- *+- and why did I get (and prevent) duplication? - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm facebook.com/vasjpan2 - linkedin.com/in/vasjpan02 - biostrategist.com ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- |
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MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync
Yeah, I was waiting for some diagnosis before just foregoing the Windows
directory assignments and making my own. Thanks! (ie, I'm make the file in the ext drive "pics" and empty out the MyDocs version) - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm facebook.com/vasjpan2 - linkedin.com/in/vasjpan02 - biostrategist.com ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- |
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MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync
Ok, I renamed my pcitures to phot library. And a month later it shows up as
?My Pictures" again. So this time I emptied it out, set up a completely new dir, and put the files in there. Is there a way to completely shut off the My Documents stuff? When I used only DOS, 1985-95, I had a directory c:/work That worked just fine. - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm facebook.com/vasjpan2 - linkedin.com/in/vasjpan02 - biostrategist.com ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- |
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MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync
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Ok, I renamed my pcitures to phot library. And a month later it shows up as ?My Pictures" again. So this time I emptied it out, set up a completely new dir, and put the files in there. Is there a way to completely shut off the My Documents stuff? When I used only DOS, 1985-95, I had a directory c:/work That worked just fine. "Windows XP Annoyances" https://books.google.ca/books?id=sBi...oved&f=fal se "Note that you can change the location of any of these system folders using TweakUI (see Appendix A), either to redirect them to existing folders or to consolidate them into a single folder. You can also safely and easily delete any of these folders. The excepton is the My Pictures folder, which, if deleted, will be automatically recreated the next time Windows starts. " https://web.archive.org/web/20050118...powertoys.mspx Tweak UI Download TweakUI.exe 147 KB Paul |
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MyDOcs/Pic two drives sync
Thanks. I have Tweak UI somewhere, and an older version of W A
- = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm facebook.com/vasjpan2 - linkedin.com/in/vasjpan02 - biostrategist.com ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- |
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