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.


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