How to copy files in XP without getting dialog box popups...

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Deam

Limp Gawd
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Nothing sucks more then copying many many big files, starting it just before you go out for a few hours, thinking it will copy, then getting home and realizing a dialog box stopped the transfer after 2 minutes asking if you want to copy something.

How do you copy things in Windows XP without these boxes coming up at all?
 
The only way I know is to wait for the first box to appear, then choose "repeat this answer for all" check box.
 
That sucks. The problem is, normally different types of boxes come up. One for read-only, thumbs.dll, etc...
 
I hear ya brother... In that case use xcopy /y /c

Start/run/cmd xcopy /? for all the switches.
 
You do it from the command line. Robocopy may also provide additional switches for certiuan scenarios, but xcopy will work 95% of the time.

 
Perfect, I will do that. I assume Xcopy is built into windows XP then?
 
Thank you all for the quick and usefull responses. Much appreciated.
 
The major advantage to Robocopy in that scenario is that you can resume an aborted copy of a large set of files with less duplication of effort. In otherwords, for all intents and purposes you can pickup where you left off and only the file that was in process will be re-copied.
 
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