I'm currently refining and updating my offline virus database updater for Malwarebytes. It's simply all the Malwarebytes data from C:\ProgramData\Malwarebytes (virus database, build number, etc) inside an SFX .exe archive set to run a batch file after successful extraction.
The Problem
My existing updater works by copying each file with individual xcopy commands, but this time I want it to simply copy the whole folder. But when trying to xcopy to C:\ProgramData, I get "Access denied" for everything.
This occurs even though I'm using the /y and /o switches and running the .exe as Administrator (from the context menu) to achieve elevated permissions. I know that I'm hitting the right directory and that the update does work with a manual copy and paste of the folder.
Is it just that it's not possible to command-copy a folder to ProgramData in Windows 7?
Extra Information
Inside the SFX .exe archive, I have a folder called "Malwarebytes" and a batch file. This is the only relevant segment of the batch file (I have independently confirmed that the rest of it works):
xcopy "Malwarebytes" "C:\ProgramData\Malwarebytes"\ /y /s /c /h /o
Odd.. It just started working.
The only idea I have for this is that when I was trying this, I was trying it with an activated version of Malwarebytes, which means that it was running a service in the background, whereas this time I was not using an activated Malwarebytes'.
This could have possibly been denying access to the files because they were in use.
I don't know. Thanks anyway, guys.
I have encountered this problem without pin pointing the problem However I used Robocopy instead. So simply replace xcopy with Robocopy with appropriate switches and it should work ...
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I have recently canceled the backup of onedrive of my desktop. The when deleting desktop between my one drive files I cannot remove it. It does not present any error messages it just does nothing. When I go deeper into the folders I find out that one folder is blocking the delete action for the desktop folder in my one drive. (I can remove it online but it can not do that on my pc). When I try to open this one folder I get the error message: The tag present in the reparse point buffer is invalid.
I tried different solutions from other forums. Them being chkdsk /r /f (:C) as well as removing in cmd as administor: del /f constrs_1 or del constrs_1 both won't work either (constrs_1 is the folder name folder form a vivado project).
So my question is: Is there another solution to forcefully delete a folder?
I had the same issue and exact same error. The chkdsk /r /f fixed it for me. Before that, I tried resetting OneDrive but that doesn't fix the issue for me.
So you may want to retry the chkdsk step again.
This below command can forcefully delete everything in the folder but it won't work if you still have this error around: "The tag present in the reparse point buffer is invalid."
del /S /F /Q .
I am trying to use robocopy to backup my entire hard drive to my external hard drive using the following code
ROBOCOPY C:\ "D:\HD Backup" /e /mir /tee /mt:4 /A-:SH /log:C:\Users\Aaron\Desktop\backup_log_HD.txt
However it takes my 170GB from my hard drive and it was up to 400GB before I stopped it
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Using /PURGE or /MIR on the root directory of the volume will
cause robocopy to apply the requested operation on files inside
the System Volume Information directory as well. If this is not
intended then the /XD switch may be used to instruct robocopy
to skip that directory.
You will likely need to add the /XJ flag to exclude junction points.
add /ZB this will make uncopyable files "unlocked", you have to start Robocopy with admin privileges.
More information when it stopped and the error message would be helpful.
I have two computers that aren't networked. I need to replicate the folder structure of one drive that exists on one computer and put it on the other computer. Both Windows 7 machines. I don't need the files, just folders/directories. The drive letters are the same on both computers (Y). The computers are miles apart physically, but I do have access to the computer I am trying to get the folder structure of via LogMeIn.
I am thinking I need to save the folder structure to a file using some process. Move that file to my computer (via email or LogMeIn File Manager) and run some process to put in on my computer.
Is there a better solution? If not, is there code out there to do this via VBA, Cmd window, .bat script, VB.NET, or VBS? I know I can write it in VBA, but I'd rather not recreate the wheel if I don't have to.
I don't have a 'process'/program that does this. LogMeIn File Manager doesn't do this either (I asked). There are lots of paths on this drive that I need so creating them by hand would take a long time. I searched and found a lot of solutions that work with computers that are networked, but these computers are not networked, hence why I think I need to save it to a file. Again, I don't want all the files on the drive (its huge and most of the files are unnecessary), just folders.
thanks.
Create a directory listing of the source computer and redirect the output to a text file:
dir /ad /b /s >> dirlist.txt
The switches to dir are (more info at MS TechNet):
/ad List only files with attribute of directory
/b Bare format (no heading information or summary)
/s Displays files in specified directory and all subdirectories
Transfer dirlist.txt from the source computer to the destination computer.
On the destination computer, use a for /F with that text file from the command prompt to create the directory structure:
for /F "delims=" %i in (dirlist.txt) do md "%i"
The switches to for are documented at MS TechNet
You have many options:
Windows command xcopy source destination /T /E. The /T option creates the directory structure, and the /E option includes empty directories.
Bundle the empty directory structure into an installer (perhaps as a zip file).
If the structure isn't relatively small and not likely to change, you could just put a bunch of md commands into a batch file.
Combination - xcopy the structure locally, zip it, transfer it, unzip it.
i try this command line
xcopy e:\myfolder /EXCLUDE:excludeList.txt \\192.168.158.15\public\comp\myfolder /E/I/D/R/H/Y
the command copy all files every time even unchanged files
i use /d that suppose to copy just newer files.
a small test shows it does work. you must have other problem ...
edit
in netwoek enviroment - you should add /z
I have a program which when it runs it fills Temp folder with lots of .tmp files. This is causing C drive to fill up. I have been asked to investigate if it's possible to write a script in dos to delete temporary files on startup. I also wish to delay the program starting until all files are deleted. This would need to happen every time on start-up. It would be great if this could be installed via a flash drive.
I would be grateful on any pointers on how this could be done
The little batch I am using to delete my temporary files:
#echo off
rd %temp% /s /q
md %temp%
cls
echo Temporary Files have been deleted!
echo.
pause
%temp% is a path which always results in your current temporary folder. However note that there are more temporary file locations like C:\Windows\temp.
If you just want to delete TMP files, go with del C:\<MyPath>\*.tmp.
There are probably more sophisticated ways, but the good old fashioned del c:\Temp\*.* should be a good start.
There's a list of all the options, here: http://www.computerhope.com/delhlp.htm
You will probably want /F (delete read only), /S (sub-directories) and /Q (quiet)
I assume, the following row in c:\autoexec.bat file may help:
del c:\path\to\temp\files\*.tmp
Cheers for replies. This is what I'm using
c:
cd \
cd "c:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp\"
del *.tmp /f/s/q
echo All tmp files deleted.
pause
This seems to do what I want it to do. Now I need it to do this everytime PC starts up. Is there a way to install this via flash drive? ie write a batch file with all commands, put on flash drive. double click .bat file, now installed and will run on startup? (Have a number of PCs which need same thing)