Question

I have checked some examples on internet but I can’t get my (first) batch file to work. I would like to copy automatically my file from a folder to another one but nothing happen.

@echo off
xcopy "C:\source\" "C:\target\" /c /d /i /y
exit

Could you see anything wrong?

Thanks!!

Update: I have done the command given by Bali C but it still doesn’t work. See snapshot

xcopy C:\folder1 C:\folder2\folder1 /t /e /i /y
xcopy C:\folder1 C:\folder2\ /t /e /i /y

Image:

I have to stop it with CTRL + C.

PS: I’m on Win 7

Update (Solution):
It works! The problem was the name xcopy,bat on my Desktop, and I was running the command from there, so it was executing the xcopy.bat file of my desktop instead of the Windows one.. I had to rename the file with “myxcopy.bat” :

@echo off
xcopy "C:\source" "C:\target" /c /d /i /y
exit

Answer 1

After testing most of the switches this worked for me:

xcopy C:\folder1 C:\folder2\folder1 /t /e /i /y

This will copy the folder folder1 into the folder folder2. So the directory tree would look like:

C:
   Folder1
   Folder2
      Folder1