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How do I move different folders/files to another drive automatically not manually one by one?

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XiZiT

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I know the title makes no sense but basically I have about 30-40 gigs that I have to move to my secondary 80gb harddrive from my C:\ because it is running low on disk space. I don't want to manually copy my mp3's (which takes around 15 minutes) then come back to the computer and move another 10-20 gigs from another directory. Can I setup some kind of script, task managing device or some other way so that I can select everything I want to copy, click OK or whatever, and let the PC do the rest?
 
How about this: make one folder on your source drive, heave all the other files and folders into it, and then move that folder to the other drive and unpack once it's arrived. Otherwise you could write a batchfile with a bunch of xcopy commands in it... 😛
 
That's a good idea however I don't want to move folders to different destinations because everything is organized and I can't move like 10-20 folders to one folder then move them back because I'll forget how everything was. And I can't copy them to that one source folder because I don't have enough disk space on my source drive to make duplciates.

How would I find the XCopy commands? I'm not good with DOS but I knew if there isn't any software out there I'd have to resort to using some DOS Commands.
 
I suppose you could try Microsoft Backup, but it's going to cram it all into one gi-normous .BKF or .QIC file and then you'd have to run a Restore to get it all pried loose again.
 
Sorry I might sound dumb, but I am not getting the problem here. So you have 40 gb of data in a harddrive and want to move all this data to another harddrive? And what prevents you from using copy-paste? Why can't you just select all, copy, and paste it in wherever you like?

I am confused 😕

Goodluck,

Xiety
 
Ok the problem is one folder is like c:\music second folder could be a sub folder of another folder and third could be sub of a sub of sub ...you know? Each folder is located at different locations so it would be hard to copy and paste at once. I'd have to copy and paste a few here, then come back later and copy and paste some more. Instead, I wanted to sort of create a whole list of folders to be copied and just come back in x amount of hours and it'd be done.
 
Oh I see what you are saying, well, right now I don't have the knowledge the answer your question but I'll try to find an answer, if you find the answer yourself, please post here so we all will learn something. Goodluck,

Xiety
 
My viewpoint is that you should just copy one folder at a time and have snacks while the transfers do their thing 😎
 
I wonder how far along he would be if he just started transfering the files at the same time he posted this topic?
😕
 
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