Windows 10: How Robocopy copy the folder start with A?

Hi


Recently i want to migrate my laptop to my desktop data, and i want to do it batch by batch


So it is the below command is the correct command to copy the folder name start with A


robocopy C:\Users\xxx\ a*.* /S ?MIR Z:\Users\xxx\ /COPYT /DCOPY:T


Thank You

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Robocopy wont copy folders with a dot at the start

As other mentioned in the comments robocopy doesn't have any problems with that files that start with a dot, I made a test with several files and directories that start with a dot using the same parameters that you and it copied them without any problem.

Since that files are mean to be hidden in Linux some multi-platform programs mark that files as hidden to achieve the same behavior in Linux and Windows, so I tried marking that files as hidden and robocopy also copied them.

So I have two theories:

• The problem is related with file permissions, you should check the log to see if there are any problems when accessing that files.
  
• The files are indeed marked and hidden and since robocopy maintain that attribute you don't see the hidden files in the destination for some reason (the \cloud\ in the destination folder makes me thing that it's not a regular folder).
  

 

Robocopy copies folders not in Documents to my backup Documents folder on 2nd drive.

Two things:

• You must surroound your folder names with double quotes:
  
  robocopy "C:\Users\my name\Documents . . ." "D:\Dropbox\my name\Documents
  . . ."
• Robocopy often hides target folders, causing users to think they are missing. Look for hidden folders.

 

Robocopy Error 2 - copyying folder in dropbox

I have successfully created and used the following batch file in windows10

robocopy C:\Users\Julie\Documents\Test C:\Users\Julie\Documents\accounts-backup
pause

However when I run the batch below to copy the contents of a folder in Dropbox I get

ERROR 2 (0x00000002) Accessing Source Directory C:\Users\Julie\Dropbox\accounts\
The system cannot find the file specified.

robocopy C:\Users\Julie\Dropbox\accounts C:\Users\Julie\Documents\accounts-backup
pause

Any suggestions to resolve this