Question I want to copy only last 60 days of files to old H/D

[BOB1901]

Running win 10 (old desktop), new desktop sent back was win 11 if that means anything. MY new desktop went bye-bye. I had backed up the new h/d to an external h/d before it went back to the company. I copied all the files from my old desktop and put them on the new desktop when I started up the new desktop. Now I just want the last 60 days of files in the external h/d so I can copy them to the old desktop that is still working. Is there a command or way of taking them from the external h/d and copying them into the right directories on the old desktop? Or can I just find which new files (60 days or less old) I have on the external h/d so I can manually put them in the right directories on the old desktop?

 

[USAFRet]

Sort the folder by date.
Select only those you need.


It would take longer to create and test some commandline function to do this, vs 'just do it'.

 

[USAFRet]

Or, copy everything, and then go through and delete what you do not want.

 

[Lafong]

Or, copy everything, and then go through and delete what you do not want.

Yep, that sounds like the best idea to me.

Ordinary copy, ordinary method.

Only issue might be if there is not enough space on the destination drive if you were to copy "everything" rather than just those from last 60 days.

 

[Alabalcho]

Open a command prompt, then it's simple

xcopy <source folder> <target folder> /D:06-30-2022 /e /c

/D parameter will copy all files modified after June 20th, 2022
/E will cause even empty folders to be copied
/C will cause to continue in case of error
You may want to check other parameters with "xcopy /?", like /L or /F, /LOG:<log file>