Thank you Pegasus for your help,
Here are the details:
The command is:
robocopy "D:\My Documents" "M:\Documents Backup" /MIR /COPYALL /PURGE /V /NP
/LOG:"C:\TEMP\work.log" /XF *.txt *.bak /ZB /R:3 /W:5
The text.txt is:
01/26/2008 07:07 AM <DIR> Any Video Converter
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\LD\Application Data\Any Video
Converter
02/08/2008 09:49 AM <DIR> video.google.com
02/08/2008 09:49 AM <DIR>
www.livevideo.com
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\LD\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\SAXBA99K\video.google.com
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\LD\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\SAXBA99K\video.google.com\googleplayer.swf
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\LD\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\SAXBA99K\
www.livevideo.com
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\LD\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\SAXBA99K\
www.livevideo.com\flvplayer
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\LD\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects\SAXBA99K\
www.livevideo.com\flvplayer\flvplayer.swf
03/06/2007 10:00 AM <DIR> #video.google.com
02/08/2008 09:49 AM <DIR> #
www.livevideo.com
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\LD\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys\#video.google.com
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\LD\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys\#
www.livevideo.com
09/08/2007 11:23 AM <DIR> FLV to Video
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\LD\Application Data\Moyea\FLV to Video
08/11/2007 11:34 AM <DIR> My Videos
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\LD\My Documents\My Videos
09/08/2007 10:32 AM <DIR> Any Video Converter
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\LD\Start Menu\Programs\Additional
Accessories\Any Video Converter
Thank you again.
"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
> "leapyear" <leapyear@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AF55F604-63F4-400F-B540-BCCCBF93222D@microsoft.com...
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > 1. I am using Windows XP Home. I'm trying to use Robocopy for Backing-up
> > "My
> > Documents" (8.9 GB) to an external USB 2 Drive .
> > I use switches : /MIR /V /COPYALL /PURGE /ZB /NP /LOG:"C:\TEMP\my.log"
> > /XF
> > *.txt *.bak /R:3 /W:5
> > Everything is going smoothly exept that 3 folders - "My Pictures" , "My
> > Videos" and "My Music" Folder Names (only the backed-up Folders) are
> > changing to "my_name's Pictures" , "my_name's Video" and "my_name's
> > Music"
> > in the external Backup directory. The data in the folders remain's intact.
> >
> > 2. Why this 3 specific folders ? are they spcial in any way ?
> >
> > 3. Is there any technical article One can read about ?
> >
> > Please , Can any expert comment on this issue ?
> > Thanks
> >
>
> A couple of things:
> - Let' see the full robocopy command, not just the switches.
> - Do this for a little test:
> 1. Click Start / Run / cmd {OK}
> 2. Type these commands verbatim:
> dir "%UserProfile%" /s /ad | find /i "Video" > c:\test.txt{Enter}
> notepad c:\test.txt{Enter}
> 3. Paste the text into your reply.
>
>
>