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   foxidrive to Gleep   
   Re: moving all files and folders into a    
   18 Dec 13 12:31:58   
   
   From: foxidrive@server.invalid   
      
   On 18/12/2013 11:32, Gleep wrote:   
   > I'm trying to figure out a way to move all of a user's files and put them   
   into a subdirectory currently in their own folder.   
   >   
   > Example:   
   > C:\Data\User1\*.* moved to C:\Data\User1\files\*.*   
   >   
   > I need to retain completely directory structure (empty folders, as well as   
   folders and files with spaces in their names).   
   >   
   > This seems like such a simple task, but I'm almost out of hair... maybe I'm   
   missing something?   
   >   
   > Thanks in advance!   
   >   
      
   Use xcopy to copy them all to a folder in c:\data and then move the folder   
   into c:\data\user1\files after   
   the xcopy.   
      
   This will stop the error message from xcopy.   
      
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