i used to use a cmd file to auto-backup, and auto-restore my personal settings (eg - my docs, my pics, my music, outlook express accounts, outlook express settings).

i lost the file, and am trying to re-write it.

however, for some reason, "my documents" aren't copying over properly - they copy to "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents", but the desktop "my documents" icon leads to an empty folder. (and there is ONLY one account on the comp - the admin one, created by defualt with xp).

Can someone check over my batch and tell me what's wrong?

CLS
@echo off
TITLE N Restore

ECHO.

for %%i in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%i:\Backup set BACKUP=%%i:
ECHO Found Backup as drive %BACKUP%.

ECHO Copying My Documents...
	XCOPY "%BACKUP%\My Documents\*.*" "%UserProfile%\My Documents\" /E /Q /Y
ECHO Done.


ECHO Copying Outlook Express Settings...
	regedit /s "%BACKUP%\N Outlook Express.reg"
ECHO Done.


ECHO Copying Outlook Express Address Book...

ECHO Done.


ECHO Copying Firefox Bookmarks...

ECHO Done.


PAUSE
goto :eof

try chaning to this..

XCOPY "%BACKUP%\My Documents\"

(remove the *.*)

XCOPY "%BACKUP%\My Documents" "%UserProfile%\My Documents" /ECIQY

<Edit>

Changed due to previous lack of sleepthanks a06lp

</Edit>

Edited August 31, 200521 yr by Yzöwl

ok, new q:

I also want to create a backup cmd file. This is a litle more complicated.

The first thing I want it to do is check if the folder "My Documents" exists on %BACKUP%. IF it does, I want it renamed as "My Documents (mm-dd-yy)".

Same with bookmarks.html (IF it exists, then it becomes bookmarks (mm-dd-yy).html)

and Administrator.wab (IF it exists, then it becomes Administrator(mm-dd-yy).wab).

The other thing i need it to do is to go into the "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" directory, get the folder name from in there (a random string of chars), then go into that directory, and copy the bookmarks.html to the %backup%.

Can anyone help me with this?

[edit]

by the way, @Yzöwl:

that code is incorrect - it copies all the stuff into %UserProfile%, not into My Documents.

the modified, and correct, code is:

XCOPY "%BACKUP%\My Documents" "%UserProfile%\My Documents\" /ECIQY

Edited August 31, 200521 yr by a06lp

Here is a VBS script modified it to your needs.

Note

All Array Start At Zero

The Red Text Is The Array Where You Want To

Place Your Information. Remove ' These From Before The

Text To Make Active, Plus Remove The Green Text To Avoid Conflicts

Green Text Can Be Removed It There just As A Test

Purple Text Are Location As Varibles

Dim Act, ApData, Fso, MozDir, Moz, UserP

  Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.shell")

  Set Fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

    UserP= Act.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%UserData%")

    ApData = Act.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%APPDATA%")

    Sd = Act.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%Systemdrive%")

    MozDir = ("I:\Firefox bookmarks\script test")

'  Moz = Array((ApData & "Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\8loakqo3.default\bookmarks.html"),_

'  (MozDir & "\bookmarksBak.html"))

    Moz = Array(("C:\TestMe.txt"),(SD & "\Testme.txt"))

  If Fso.FileExists(Moz(0)) Then

    Fso.CopyFile(Moz(0)),(Moz(1))

  Else

    Act.Popup "Cannot Find This File" & vbCrLf & Moz(0), 5, "Error Missing", 0 + 32

  End If

If You Run The Above Script Without Any Modifications,

And Missing This Location C:\TestMe.txt, It Will Display

A Error message, If it There Then It Moves It To SystemDrive.

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i dont know any vbs.

i was hoping for batch file. can you help?

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Need a .cmd or .bat for exporting Firefox bookmark