2 laptops with Win98SE

I have 2 Toshiba laptops, both running WIN 98SE, which have a network cable attached
between them (no router - just a cable- ? twisted?)

I have moved files before from one to the other with no problem, using Explorer or
Powerdesk.

I backup my main laptop weekly to CDRs. As extra insurance, I wanted to copy certain
data files over from main to backup laptop. This woked fine the 1st time I did it.
Now when I try to copy the DATA folder from main to BU laptop, I get a mesage that it
cannot copy file over as there already is one with the same name.

I assumed that I would get the chance to overwrite the first file on the BU laptop &
let it copy over it. So much for assuming........

Is this "standard" behavior and is there a way around it?

TIA

Doug

That's standard behaviour. The workaround is to erase the destination files
before copying the source files to the destination. You could easily do
this with a batch file, like so:

@echo off
del \\destination\directory\*.*
copy \\source\directory\*.* \\destination\directory\*.*

This assumes that the source and destination directories don't contain any
folders themselves. If they do then we need to get a bit fancier, or you
just need to delete them with Explorer before copying them.

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"Doug Boufford" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have 2 Toshiba laptops, both running WIN 98SE, which have a network
cable attached
> between them (no router - just a cable- ? twisted?)
>
> I have moved files before from one to the other with no problem, using
Explorer or
> Powerdesk.
>
> I backup my main laptop weekly to CDRs. As extra insurance, I wanted to
copy certain
> data files over from main to backup laptop. This woked fine the 1st time I
did it.
> Now when I try to copy the DATA folder from main to BU laptop, I get a
mesage that it
> cannot copy file over as there already is one with the same name.
>
> I assumed that I would get the chance to overwrite the first file on the
BU laptop &
> let it copy over it. So much for assuming........
>
> Is this "standard" behavior and is there a way around it?
>
> TIA
>
> Doug

Richard G. Harper wrote:
> That's standard behaviour. The workaround is to erase the destination files
> before copying the source files to the destination. You could easily do
> this with a batch file, like so:
>
> @echo off
> del \\destination\directory\*.*
> copy \\source\directory\*.* \\destination\directory\*.*
>
> This assumes that the source and destination directories don't contain any
> folders themselves. If they do then we need to get a bit fancier, or you
> just need to delete them with Explorer before copying them.
>
Thanks Richard

Doug