How to copy directories with spaces in the name

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I am trying to use robocopy but am unable to make it work because of spaces in the directory names.
I am trying to copy 3 directories: My Documents, My Music and My Pictures to 'C:\test-backup' but want the end result to be
'C:\test-backup\My Documents'
'C:\test-backup\My Music'
'C:\test-backup\My Pictures'

My command does not work:
robocopy C:\Users\Angie C:\test-backup "My Documents" /B /E /R:0 /CREATE /NP /TEE /XJ /LOG+:"CompleteBackupLog.txt"

No matter what I do, it’s just not happening. Anybody have any suggestions or tricks?

robocopy spaces directory
8 Answers

There is a bug in robocopy in interpreting the source name. If you include a back slash at the end of the path to describe a folder it keeps including the string for the source into the rest of the line. ie

robocopy "C:\back up\" %destination% /e Nothing here will go to the destination string

robocopy "C:\back up" %destination% /e but this works

I may be wrong but I think both should work!

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