Reverse Syn -- Copy movies not watched.????
I searched Google -- no help probably because I did not know how to ask the question in a few words. I have a 500 Gb WD Passport that is full of movies -- about 200. I use the Passport to plug into...
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xcopy (command prompt command) will do what you want.
First, make a list of the movies you watched by running a 'dir' command on the portable drive (d:\movies in my example). Make the watched.txt file in the directory on your hard drive with your movies (c:\movies in my example). Then use that .txt file as an argument to the xcopy command. Xcopy lets you exclude the files names in the .txt file from a mass copy.
1. Open a command prompt.
2. c:
3. cd \movies
4. dir /b d:\movies > watched.txt
5. xcopy *.* d:\movies /exclude: watched.txt
Remove the space between the /exclude: and watched.txt above.
Again, c:\movies is the hard drive and d:\movies is the portable drive. You can substitue 'd:\movies' in step 5 for another portable drive or you must free up the needed space after collecting the list in step 4.
https://commandwindows.com/xcopy.htm
First, make a list of the movies you watched by running a 'dir' command on the portable drive (d:\movies in my example). Make the watched.txt file in the directory on your hard drive with your movies (c:\movies in my example). Then use that .txt file as an argument to the xcopy command. Xcopy lets you exclude the files names in the .txt file from a mass copy.
1. Open a command prompt.
2. c:
3. cd \movies
4. dir /b d:\movies > watched.txt
5. xcopy *.* d:\movies /exclude: watched.txt
Remove the space between the /exclude: and watched.txt above.
Again, c:\movies is the hard drive and d:\movies is the portable drive. You can substitue 'd:\movies' in step 5 for another portable drive or you must free up the needed space after collecting the list in step 4.
https://commandwindows.com/xcopy.htm
