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by Foxman1999
01 Aug 2017 17:05
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: Automatic icloud backup to a singular folder on a Network drive
Replies: 6
Views: 4904

Re: Automatic icloud backup to a singular folder on a Network drive

Start the batch in the CLI Forgive my ignorance, but how do I do this? put the error message here in the contribution please. I'm assuming this is part of running the batch in CLI mode As far as two concrete examples, I have several groups of images with the same names and different time stamps. Al...
by Foxman1999
31 Jul 2017 09:38
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: Automatic icloud backup to a singular folder on a Network drive
Replies: 6
Views: 4904

Re: Automatic icloud backup to a singular folder on a Network drive

Phil, I need help. When I try to execute the code you referred me to, command prompt exits underneather the TAB section. I've set a pause before and after the FOR command that is under that header and I cannot see the second pause. Any advise to continue testing to see if this script is for me?
by Foxman1999
28 Jul 2017 11:15
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: Check day and if day = .. start file
Replies: 6
Views: 6543

Re: Check day and if day = .. start file

If you have the long date set up on your PC to display the day of the week, you can use something like the following to display the day of the week.

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echo %date:~0,3%


This would display the first character, and the next three characters after it.
by Foxman1999
28 Jul 2017 09:44
Forum: DOS Batch Forum
Topic: Automatic icloud backup to a singular folder on a Network drive
Replies: 6
Views: 4904

Automatic icloud backup to a singular folder on a Network drive

I will try to accurately describe what I want from this batch script. 1) It needs to be completely automated. I plan on attaching it to a scheduled task that will run every so often. I don't want to have to babysit the batch. 2) I need the source and destination set in clear variables. Something lik...