Hello, I am trying to find a much more efficient way of searching, finding, and copying files to an external drive than using:
xcopy c:\*.xls d:\sort\xls\*.* /s/d/y
I am trying to search for all MS Office documents on the entire hard drive and save them to a sorted folder which contains a folder for each type. Currently you start the batch and it takes like 5 minutes to search for all XLS, and other 5 minutes to search for all *.doc files etc, so the more you are searching for backing up into an external sorted location, the longer the batch takes.
I understand that I could speed it up by not sweeping the entire harddrive, but instead search withing the users profiles and exclude c:\windows , but I was wondering if anyone know of a better quicker method than the command above from the command line for a Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista system.
I have searched for a way to pass an argument into the Windows Search function, but I havent found any way to add that to a batch to run a Windows Search. So I am hoping that their is a command combination or maybe even a free dos tool out there that will make searches quicker that I am unaware of.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dave
