skip already available files destination

[vishnuj]

I need to copy a set of files from source to destination on daily basis. So i need to skip the files already available on the destination directory.

If i use -y command while copying, it will ask confirmation to skip. But, i don't want to ask confirmation, it should skip always.

[foxidrive]

robocopy with the /mir switch will mirror the folders, only copying new files and removing old ones. Is that what you want to do?

Test it on some dummy folders first.

[vishnuj]

I don't want to remove the old files which is already available in the destination folder. I just want to skip the files which is already available in the destination folder.

Suppose i have files name one.txt, two.txt, three.txt, four.txt,. etc in folder1... i want to copy all these files to folder2, which already contains one.txt and two.txt, So in this case these two files should skip from copying and i need the rest files in folder2.

[RightBehindu]

Can you not simply make a if statement?

if not exist "one.txt" copy "one.txt" "Destination" etc...

or even:

:copy_one
if exist "one.txt" goto copy_two

etc...

Not sure if this is what you want but hope it helps.

Matt

[Compo]

Robocopy by default does not copy same files, it copies only those which are different. That means it will only copy a file with the same name if its file size or time stamp differs from that which already exists in the destination.

[foxidrive]

I don't want to remove the old files which is already available in the destination folder. I just want to skip the files which is already available in the destination folder.

Compo is right, so use robocopy with the /e switch.

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Robocopy "c:\folder1" "d:\folder2" /e

[Squashman]

Can you not simply make a if statement?

if not exist "one.txt" copy "one.txt" "Destination" etc...

or even:

:copy_one
if exist "one.txt" goto copy_two

etc...

Not sure if this is what you want but hope it helps.

Matt

You could but that would be more code and run slower than Robocopy.