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RE: How to exclude certain file types from a CopyFolder... - 6/2/2008 4:34:04 AM
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ebgreen
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Look at a tool called RoboCopy. Otherwise you will have to write code to do the checking yourself. Not hard code to write, but Robocopy already has it all so why reinvent the wheel?
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RE: How to exclude certain file types from a CopyFolder... - 6/3/2008 1:48:37 AM
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ebgreen
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I may need to add a section on this to the frequently asked stuff thread. Here is the best way that I have found to work out the qotes for a .Run command. Follow this procedure exactly.
1) Open a command prompt
2) In the command prompt, work out exactly how the command needs to look to function from a command line. Once you get it, copy it to the clipboard.
3) Open your favorite VBS editor and create a completely new script file
4) In the editor on the first line put a ' then paste in the command line text that you copied in step 2. This is your goal.
5) Type this into the editor (if you want you can name the shell object whatever it is called in your main script to make things easier later):
Dim oWsh:Set oWsh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Dim strCMD
strCMD = ""
WScript.Echo strCMD
6) Now change the value of strCMD to be whatever you think would make it be the same as what you copied in ste 2.
7) Run the script
8) Compare the output of the script to the comment that you made on line 1 of the script.
9) Repeat steps 6-8 changing strCMD a little bit at a time until the output of the script is exactly the same as what worked at the command prompt
10) Copy the line that is setting the value of strCMD
11) Paste that into your main script just before where you want to do the .Run command.
12) Change the .Run command in the main script so that it tries to .Run strCMD
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http://www.visualbasicscript.com/m_47117/tm.htm
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RE: How to exclude certain file types from a CopyFolder... - 6/3/2008 3:32:14 AM
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ebgreen
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To be honest with you in my opinion if you are trying to do that much exclusion, I would do the whole thing with a RoboCopy JOB file instead of trying to do it at the command line.
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http://www.visualbasicscript.com/m_47117/tm.htm
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RE: How to exclude certain file types from a CopyFolder... - 6/3/2008 3:36:32 AM
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This is how I start out
Copy original to a text editor
cmd /c Robocopy "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop" "\\Server\Backup Share\User\Desktop" /S /XF *.mp3 *.gho *.img *.jpg
Do a search/replace single " with double " with the editor
cmd /c Robocopy ""C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop"" ""\\Server\Backup Share\User\Desktop"" /S /XF *.mp3 *.gho *.img *.jpg
Add a " before and after
"cmd /c Robocopy ""C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop"" ""\\Server\Backup Share\User\Desktop"" /S /XF *.mp3 *.gho *.img *.jpg"
WScript.Echo this new string to make sure it maches the original
WScript.Echo "cmd /c Robocopy ""C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop"" ""\\Server\Backup Share\User\Desktop"" /S /XF *.mp3 *.gho *.img *.jpg"
Locate the string I want to replace with a variable
WScript.Echo "cmd /c Robocopy ""C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop"" ""\\Server\Backup Share\User\Desktop"" /S /XF *.mp3 *.gho *.img *.jpg"
Replace this string value immediately with " & & "
WScript.Echo "cmd /c Robocopy ""C:\Documents and Settings\" & & "\Desktop"" ""\\Server\Backup Share\User\Desktop"" /S /XF *.mp3 *.gho *.img *.jpg"
Insert the variable name in between the & &
WScript.Echo "cmd /c Robocopy ""C:\Documents and Settings\" & strVariableGoesHere & "\Desktop"" ""\\Server\Backup Share\User\Desktop"" /S /XF *.mp3 *.gho *.img *.jpg"
Repeat as needed
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