Copying files with Macro Scheduler

jnbell · Post by **jnbell** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:55 pm

Hi...

I'm new to Marco Scheduler and I want to copy certain files between networked computers at night.

We do not have a domain just a work group in WINXP SP2.

I hope someone can give me a sample script to copy files from 3 different computers to our main office computer and have it run everynight at about midnight. The files to be copied will be the same files everynight.

If you can please email me at [email protected]

Thanks a bunch!

IXIS · Post by **IXIS** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 4:59 pm

Hi jnbell,

I have a script that does almost the same thing but on an hourly basis. Try to map a network drive from three remote boxes inside your main office computer, and then you can do a copy just like the drive is local. Only difference would be that you have to note the proper drive letter in the path.

CopyFile>r:\temp\myfile.txt,c:\my documents\myfile.old

in this example the r: drive would be a mapped network drive from the remote computer. One thing to keep in mind though with this method is that you must have the network drive mounted first before the copy job runs.

hope this helps!

support · Post by **support** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 6:16 pm

Or do:

CopyFile>\\Computer_Name\sharename\path\file.txt,destination

You do not need a domain.

jnbell · Post by **jnbell** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 11:53 pm

Thanks everyone for your input. I have combined several of the suggestions and everything is working fine now.

Thanks for the help.

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