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Solution we went with: XCOPY both directions. The first XCOPY uses /L (list) and puts the output to a temp file of what files don't match. Then the FOR loop deletes the files found in the temp file. Then the temp file is deleted, and the next XCOPY replaces the files that were deleted (newer on dest...

thanks so much foxidrive ... i could never have come up with that...i'll test tomorrow

unfortunately we only have access to windows xp dos commands... not a folder tree - just a folder with 10 files in both source 1 and destination 1

we do an xcopy /d of a folder with 10 files in it from source 1 to destination 1. if the file is missing or newer it works GREAT. but recently we found that the users could do a "save" or "save as" on a file in the destination 1 folder and thus create a file with a newer date tha...