Heres summit i done during the week.
I have a thumb drive so when its plugged into the laptop in the car it appears as 'e' drive.
so create a batch file that is run as a startup program
xcopy e:\batch\music\*.* "C:\My Documents\My Music\" /s /e /c /h /k /r
xcopy e:\batch\movies\*.* "C:\My Documents\My movies\" /s /e /c /h /k /r
Put the two lines above into a text file and save as filename.bat (save type as all files in note pad)
Now all i gotta do is put my music on the pen-drive in the batch\music folder
and for movies put it in the batch\movies folder.
Once the car boots it will copy all the new stuff across.
Saves having to plug in lan and i find the wireless network unreliable
i dont actually know what command to delete the files off the thumb drive once finished without prompting to type y or N (if anyone knows can you let me know)
Well thats my tip
Damo784
put this in your batch file:Originally Posted by damo642
echo Y>c:\yes
del e:\batch\music\*.* <c:\yes
del e:\batch\movies\*.* <c:\yes
del c:\yes <c:\yes
what this does is
line 1: redirect the output of the echo (Y) to the file c:\yes
line 2-4: redirect input from file c:\yes to program
used to work really good back in the day.(some times i miss MSDOS v2)
the del command above does not work because i not only want to delete files but also folders and subfolders.(thats why i used xcopy to move folders and subfolders)
Do you know a way of doing this
Damo784
use "deltree", i think.
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he might not have deltree not sure if they had it past windows 98. i know it is not shipped with xp pro.
if you find a copy of it somewhere, might even be under "support tools" elsewhere, or do afor it.
Nope Deltree is not part of windows xp pro
Need some other ideas to delete abitrary files and folders
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