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XCOPY Prompt
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:37:35 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:55:14 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:16:57 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:26:30 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:52:50 -0700, Bob Hatch wrote: On 4/26/2012 10:54 PM, Steve Hayes wrote: I don't put anything on the desktop except icons that are shortcuts to programs elsewhere. The main reason is that I can't find the desktop to edit the files. If it's a batch file, right click, select edit. That will not edit it in the program I want to edit it in nor will it tell me the path to put in the batch file to copy it to the flash drive. copy c:\desktop\desktop J: just doesn't work. The desktop doesn't tell me the path to itself. As someone (Zaphod?) posted earlier in this thread, the path is %userprofile%\desktop. Or, you can always use the fully qualified path, if that's easier. Either way, it's not exactly a secret or hidden in any way. It may not be secret or hidden but it's bloody hard to find. C:\Documents and Settings\Stevedir c:\%steve%\desktop The system cannot find the file specified. C:\Documents and Settings\Stevedir c:\%Steve%\desktop The system cannot find the file specified. C:\Documents and Settings\Stevedir c:\Steve\desktop The system cannot find the file specified. Try "dir %userprofile%\desktop" and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Or if you'd rather, try "C:\Users\Steve\Desktop" which might also work, assuming "Steve" is your current profile name. It wasn't really that hard, was it? Sorry, my Internet access has been erratic over the last few days, so I've been busy trying to find out what is wrong with that and fix it to try all the things suggested here. But thanks for the suggestions anyway, I hope to try them when other things are working better. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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