Windows 10: Robocopy: copy drive root directory results in hidden backup folder

Windows 10 Home 21H2 19044.1526, 64-bit Robocopy 10.0.19041.1266 Run Robocopy via .bat file, Run as Administrator. Hello: When I use Robocopy to copy the root directory of a drive D: to a folder non-root directory on an external drive, the resulting destination folder is Hidden. I believe that's because the root drive has System and Hidden attributes. How can I prevent System and Hidden attributes from being applied to the destination folder? My testing I removed options for multi-threads, retries, logging, etc., to make it easier for you folks to read.: SET options=/MIR /A-:RSHA /XA

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

I currently have 2 PCs with Windows 10 that I backup Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos to a 3rd PC folder that is backed up to the Cloud. On my PC, the Music, Pictures and Videos folders are not under Documents. They are at the same level as Documents
under my user name.

I had been using SyncToy to do the copying, but had to switch to Robocopy because SyncToy does not work right under Windows 10. All works fine. The SyncToy command and then the Robocopy command run on the 3rd PC.

I want to eliminate the 3rd PC and move the backup folder to a 2nd hard drive on my PC. That is where the problem begins. Robocopy will now run on my PC. When Robocopy copies the Document folder to the backup Documents folder, it copies 'My Music', 'My
Pictures' and 'My Videos' to the backup Documents folder. These folders do not exist in the Documents folder. It appears that there is some link that connects 'My Music' to the separate Music folder. The same applies to 'My Pictures' and 'My Videos'.

This is the Robocopy command that I want to use to copy the Documents data to the backup Documents folder:

robocopy C:\Users\my name\Documents C:\Users\my name\Dropbox\PC1\Documents /mir >> c:\robocopybackup_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%.log

I tried adding the /XL Robocopy option to block the copy of these unwanted folders to my backup:

robocopy C:\Users\my name\Documents D:\Dropbox\my name\Documents /XD "C:\Users\my name\Documents\My Music","C:\Users\my name\Documents\My Pictures","C:\Users\my name\Documents\My Videos" /mir >> c:\robocopybackup_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%.log

This did not help. Please tell me what to do.....

Thank you!

 

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