Xcopy troubles

[mrprimo55]

hey everyone
here's the deal: im trying to copy my music from my c: drive to another hard drive (labeled f: ) by using xcopy. i made a batch file in notepad and saved it as backup.bat . the command in the batch file says:

xcopy c:\documents and settings\[I]username[/I]\my documents\my music\itunes\ f:\backups\ /s /e /r /f /h /i /c /k /y

this all seems fine to me, right? so when i click on the batch file to run it, the DOS screen flashes and then disappears. why is this happening and what can i do to fix it? thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Nodsu]

You need to quote pathnames containing spaces. xcopy "c:\Doc.....\itunes\" ...

You can run your batch file from a CMD window or tell in its properties not to close on exit.

 

[mrprimo55]

You can run your batch file from a CMD window or tell in its properties not to close on exit.

Thanks for the help, how to I tell it not to close on exit?

 

[N3051M]

right click into properties i think

 

[Nodsu]

The properties thing will only work for Windows 9x. You can put a "pause" command in the end of your file if you wish to keep the windows open in XP.