Cyberlink and Feedback Hub | Robocopy Mirroring Part II

I am mostly getting the hang of Robocopy.

I have hidden Cyberlink and Feedback Hub, and blocked them from showing in the file list.

But I am not sorting out how to skip the files. I have gleaned a basic understanding of Attributes and I have an idea of how to build the Robocopy command.

But I clearly have something mixed up or incomplete.

ERROR : Invalid Parameter #4 : "/XA:ATTRIB+H:CyberLink"

Here is my command. I am shaky on both on the syntax and the ordering.

Note: where the big grin object is appearing the code should the code should read /DCOPY colon mark then DA with the space deleted, No idea how it is getting in or how to get rid of it. Sorry.

ROBOCOPY C:\Users\mikei\Documents I:HP.Files /MIR /XA:ATTRIB+H:CyberLink /X:ATTRIB+H:FeedbackHub /DCOPYA /v /tee /ts /log:"I:\log.HP.temp.txt"

Can anybody get me on the right path?
Help me get rid of the grin?

Thanks for any suggestions and solutions.

Like this?

ROBOCOPY C:\Users\mikei\Documents I:HP.Files /MIR /XA:ATTRIB+H:CyberLink /X:ATTRIB+H:FeedbackHub /DCOPY

Code:

:DA

/v /tee /ts /log:"I:\log.HP.temp.txt"

Again I am in over my head and very lost.

Help please.

Thinking I needed a different structure and command, one for folders,
from

/XD dirs [dirs]...

eXclude Directories matching given names/paths.

I now have this and variations for identifying "FeedbackHub"

ROBOCOPY C:\Users\mikei\Documents I:HP.Files /MIR /DCOPY D: colon ...A /XD:"FeedbackHub" /v /tee /ts /log:"I:\log.HP.temp.txt"

Which produces this:

ERROR : Invalid Parameter #5 : "/XD:dirsFeedbackHub"

Robocopy seems to be moving the leading quotes to the front of the command. Or seeing that part of the command as string?

Is this is your command?

Code:

ROBOCOPY C:\Users\mikei\Documents I:HP.Files /MIR /DCOPY:DA /XD:"FeedbackHub" /v /tee /ts /log:"I:\log.HP.temp.txt"

There are a couple of problems with it.

1. You don't want a colon after /XD and you want to put the full source path to exclude (I'm assuming it is C:\Users\mikei\Documents\FeedbackHub).
2. The destination path also looks wrong - I'm assuling you have an existing directory I:\HP.Files (note the backslash)
3. You can also remove /DCOPY:DA as it is the default (not wrong just unnecessary).

Try something like this :

Code:

ROBOCOPY C:\Users\mikei\Documents I:\HP.Files /MIR  /XD "C:\Users\mikei\Documents\FeedbackHub" /v /tee /ts /log:"I:\log.HP.temp.txt"

How to exclude subdirectories in the destination while using /mir /xd switch in robocopy - Stack Overflow

It works for me with slightly different paths defined :

Incidentally if you want to exclude multiple directories but them in a space delimited list after the /XD .


Like this :

Code:

ROBOCOPY C:\Users\mikei\Documents I:\HP.Files /MIR  /XD "C:\Users\mikei\Documents\FeedbackHub" "C:\Users\mikei\Documents\Cyberlink" /v /tee /ts /log:"I:\log.HP.temp.txt"

Thank you this,

It is E-X-T-R-E-M-E-L-Y helpful

You have laid out the befuddling syntax very nicely.

I have studied it but not run it yet: I hope to do that later tonight.

The linked article looks very informative too. Thanks for it.

Very close. significant progress, but a new stop point.

Code:

 ROBOCOPY C:\Users\mikei\Documents I:\HP.Files /MIR /XD "C:\Users\mikei\Documents\FeedbackHub" "C:\Users\mikei\Documents\Cyberlink"  
/v /tee /ts /log:"I:\log.HP.temp.txt"

tail......
New Dir 0 C:\Users\mikei\Documents\MuseScore2\
New Dir 0 C:\Users\mikei\Documents\MuseScore2\Images\
New Dir 0 C:\Users\mikei\Documents\MuseScore2\Plugins\
New Dir 0 C:\Users\mikei\Documents\MuseScore2\Scores\
New Dir 0 C:\Users\mikei\Documents\MuseScore2\Soundfonts\
New Dir 0 C:\Users\mikei\Documents\MuseScore2\Styles\
New Dir 0 C:\Users\mikei\Documents\MuseScore2\Templates\
New Dir 0 C:\Users\mikei\Documents\My Music\

2018/09/13 20:41:47 ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Time-Stamping Destination Directory I:\HP.Files\My Music\
Access is denied.
Waiting 30 seconds...

I am not finding a My Music, hidden or visible

The next folder is " my.linux.pictures.backup"


Any thoughts what is going on?

I ran the same command again and this time it stalled on My Pictures.

0 C:\Users\mikei\Documents\MuseScore2\Templates\
0 C:\Users\mikei\Documents\My Music\
New Dir 0 C:\Users\mikei\Documents\My Pictures\
2018/09/13 21:03:01 ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Time-Stamping Destination Directory I:\HP.Files\My Pictures\
Access is denied.

Robocopy uses /COPY:DAT by default, which means to copy data, attributes and timestamp. You could try turning off timestamp copying by explicit setting /COPY:DA if it is having a problem with timestamps.

What file system are you copying to? NTFS? ExFAT?