Robocopy invalid parameter

Question

I am getting the error invalid parameter with Robocopy.   An earlier Vista post said to use double quotes for directory names with spaces which I am doing.  Here is the example cmd command:

Robocopy "C:\Users\My Name\My Documents" "K:\My Documents Home 050110" /MT:120/E/XO

The Robocopy response is:

Started : Sat May 01 13:05:20 2010

Source - C:\Users\Jim Langendonk\My Documents" K:\My

Dest   - C:\Windows\system32\Documents\

Files : Home

        050110"

Options : /COPY:DAT /R:1000000 /W:30

As you can see, lots of errors here from not recognizing the destination, files not defaulting to *.*, and not recognizing the options.  Any help is appreciated.  I used to use XCOPY on XP but XCOPY is not working on this new Windows 7 machine either.

Regards,

Jim

Answer 1

Remove the final backslash from each directory specification, and put spaces between the options:

   Robocopy "C:\Users\My Name\My Documents" "K:\My Documents Home 050110" /MT:120 /E /XO

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Answer 2

I got the error #7 and it took some time to figure out the issue. Like someone else said, it had to be simple, because I reused a batch file and all I did was change the path of the log file.

And I forgot, different OS means different Robocopy.

I analyzed the logging parameter string:

I double checked the existance of the folder.

/LOG:"C:\Logs\Log%date:~3,10%.txt /V /NFL /NDL" => FAIL

then

/LOG:C:"\Logs\Log%date:~3,10%.txt /V /NFL /NDL" => FAIL

Then I got my "D'oh!" moment:

/LOG:C:"\Logs\Log%date:~3,10%.txt" /V /NFL /NDL => SUCCESS!

It took me a while to understand Windows 7 reads the string as a whole in the batch, but the quotes are for the path and since the "/" is an invalid character in command prompt I got an error.