Robocopy - Invalid Parameter

Question

I am running the following command to copy files from my local drive to my external drive. Both drives are formatted NTFS and the files being copied are well below the 4gb limit.

robocopy C:\ToadTrial\Toad for Oracle\User Files             G:\DailyBackup\Toad\User Files\ /E

The command line returns: ERROR : Invalid Parameter #3 : "Oracle\User"

Clearly robocopy doesnt seem to like the space in the directory name, but I would have thought this should not have been a problem for Vista. Copying of other directories (without spaces) is working fine. Any suggestions?

many thanks.

Answer 1

Hi siwebley,

As you figured out it’s because of the space between the words, you are getting an error message.

You may use double quotes for pointing the directory name separtated by spaces

C:\ToadTrial**\”Toad for Oracle”**User Files

Let us know if this helps

For more information, see the link below

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee156811.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/09/07/the-coolest-command-line-tool-in-windows-vista.aspx

Thanks and Regards:

Ajay K

Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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