If the user folders are linked to OneDrive there may be a difference in how user folders are addressed in a command prompt or powershell. I haven’t had a chance to test it.<\/p>\n
If you go into explorer and right click the Documents folder that looks like it’s under “This PC” and select properties, the window that pops up will give the directory of the folder.<\/p>\n
To find the true location of the user’s folders open regedit and go to:<\/p>\n
There you will see a list that includes the true path of user’s folders.<\/p>\n To include the whole source folder in the destination you must include the source folder’s name in the destination. You must also, for some stupid reason, include a space after the source and destination names.<\/p>\n Following is an example of a batch file, or command lines<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pre work If the user folders are linked to OneDrive there may be a difference in how user folders are addressed in a command prompt or powershell. I haven’t had a chance to test it. If you go into explorer and right click the Documents folder that looks like it’s under “This PC” and select […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Computer\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\User Shell Folders<\/code><\/p>\nBackup<\/h3>\n
echo.\necho.\necho Be sure you have the correct source directory paths!\necho Right click on file explorer and select properties for each user folder\necho.\necho.\npause\n\necho off\nset month=%DATE:~4,2%\nset day=%DATE:~7,2%\nset month=%DATE:~,2%\nset day=%DATE:~3,2%\nset year=%DATE:~-2%\nset hour=%time:~0,2%\nset min=%time:~3,2%\nset sec=%time:~6,2%\nset milsec=%time:~9,2%\necho on\nset FolderDateTime=%month%%day%%year%-%hour%%min%%sec%\nset BackupDestination=Z:\\UserBackup\\%computername%\\%username%\\%FolderDateTime%\n\nset src1=Documents\nset src2=Pictures\nset src3=Downloads\nset src4=Desktop\nset src5=Music\nset src6=Videos\n\nrobocopy \"%homedrive%%homepath%\\src1 \" \"%BackupDestination%\\src1 \" \/MIR \/COPY:DAT \/DCOPY:T\nrobocopy \"%homedrive%%homepath%\\src2 \" \"%BackupDestination%\\src2 \" \/MIR \/COPY:DAT \/DCOPY:T\nrobocopy \"%homedrive%%homepath%\\src3 \" \"%BackupDestination%\\src3 \" \/MIR \/COPY:DAT \/DCOPY:T\nrobocopy \"%homedrive%%homepath%\\src4 \" \"%BackupDestination%\\src4 \" \/MIR \/COPY:DAT \/DCOPY:T\nrobocopy \"%homedrive%%homepath%\\src5 \" \"%BackupDestination%\\src5 \" \/MIR \/COPY:DAT \/DCOPY:T\nrobocopy \"%homedrive%%homepath%\\src6 \" \"%BackupDestination%\\src6 \" \/MIR \/COPY:DAT \/DCOPY:T\n\necho.\necho.\necho Copy has completed\necho To open the destination directory continue \necho.\necho.\npause\nstart %homedrive%%homepath%\npause<\/pre>\n