Batch file to move a file

[WorldBuilder]

Hi all,

I'm no batch file expert. I want to write one that will copy a file from one location to another. Currently, I have this:

xcopy C:\Documents and Settings\cbartlett\My Documents\My Pictures\untitled.bmp G:\scans

The G drive is a network drive. I've tried a great many variations of this from what I could find in the help for xcopy but nothing is working. The file is not copied when this batch file is executed.

What's wrong?

Thanks!

Chris

[pip22]

XCOPY is a DOS utility and as such it cannot read/write folder names or filenames which use more than 8 characters (plus the 3 extension characters), and cannot read spaces. In your case, the filename is okay, but the folder names in the path are too long and have spaces. When writing the command, you need to use the short folder names as DOS sees them. probably something like this:
xcopy c:\documen1\cbartlet\mydocum1\mypictu1\untitled.bm p
I'm only guessing cos I don't use DOS anymore, you would need to to look at a folder listing in DOS to check how DOS interprets the long folder names exactly, but I think I'm very near the mark. Incidentally, it won't work at all in Windows XP on an NTFS partition if that's what you're running. XCOPY cannot read files on an NTFS partition because FAT (which DOS uses) and NTFS are incompatible.