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I have made a significant update to this script It now takes care of the issue: what if the copying process is interrupted [e.g. with a sudden system crash] - and thus the user is left with a folder that supposedly contains a backup [as indicated by its name] but in reality has incomplete content? T...

I made basic tests files with just prompt $S$S$S$P$G Read-Host function prompt { "$(' ' * 3)$(Get-Location)> " } Read-Host function prompt { Write-Host (" " * 3) -NoNewline return " $($executionContext.SessionState.Path.CurrentLocation)$('>' * ($nestedPromptLevel + 1)) " } Read-Host but they all wer...

I made some progress [...] But it also unnecessarily goes through every item in the folder where this BAT is residing - and spits out for every one of them info [...] I finally managed do take care of that - and on top of it also hid the The system cannot find the drive specified. messages showing ...

DOSadnie wrote: ↑

11 Aug 2023 02:44

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How about moving it to the Tray area? Does any one have ideas on how to do it?

Any ideas about how to insert a script into the Tray and make it stay there as an always accessible icon?

Wow indeed, as apparently you have never ever accidentally deleted something and also never run out of disk space - thus never had to empty the Recycle Bin and never realized after some time that a re-worked item is missing. Wow

Or you just do not understand what last resort means

So does anyone know how to do this?

And also how make this latest version of ny script to apply itself also to the last volume present in the system, as apparently it ignores my volume W [which is my last]


I tried writing a corresponding PS1 script but failed miserably at it

DOSadnie wrote: ↑

18 Nov 2023 11:45

If you mean replacing line
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Well, did you?

Why you didn't tested my solution as I wrote it (more than one month ago)? As I have just now tested this once more: that code @echo off cls echo/ echo Info about what the script will do echo/ setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion rem Get an ASCII CR (13) character for /F %%a in ('copy /Z "%~F0" NUL') do...

How could this be happening It's obviously a bug in the code [...] Feel free to reach out to Microsoft [...] I am unable to do so because when trying to create Microsoft Account nothing happens after I enter the verification code from an e-mail I receive [i.e. there is no next step to be chosen / d...

If you mean replacing line
with either then this does not work

DOSadnie wrote: ↑

13 Oct 2023 08:49

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does not make the CMD window succumb to pressing of >>w<<

I have just made a new topic about this >>W<< issue:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10945

As pointed out in this discussion https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10897&p=69149#p69008 apparently the timeout command makes it impossible to press any key to close CMD window, because the W is exempted from that rule. Here is basic example @echo off echo Pressing of any key will cl...

I have managed to produce Info about what the script will do Executing in: 3 2 1 The script has been executed [Press any key to close this CMD window] with this version @echo off cls echo/ echo Info about what the script will do echo/ setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set "countdown=3" echo Executing ...

You might want also to take a look at this topic: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10491

OM3 wrote: ↑

20 Oct 2023 06:47

I've always stuck to DOS for small things I need to get done.
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Me too; and I just a small time code tweaker. But time after time it turns out that BAT scripting is insufficient