And this is why there's a livejournal...

[tahnan]

Does anyone out there have a tape of (or a TiVoing of) either last night's "Arrested Development" or last night's "How I Met Your Mother", that they could lend us?

And: does anyone know how, in Windows, to merge one directory into another such that all and only those files that are newer in the source than the target are copied into the target?

Comments

[cazique.livejournal.com]

copy all the files from directory_source to directory_target. When there's a filename conflict, Windows will pop up a box asking you if you want to replace. If the date of source is newer, click Yes, otherwise click No.

Programmatically, there may be a way but I don't know it.

[jofish22.livejournal.com]

No.

And you want to do start-run- cmd

and at the C:\whatever> prompt you can do

xcopy location destination /d

which does eactly that. If you do

xcopy /?

it shows all the options for you to play with. But /d should do it.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I have "Arrested Development" on tape and "How I Met Your Mother" on Tivo. (Haven't watched either yet.) How soon do you need them?

[jadelennox]

I'd love to borrow HIMYM when tahnan is done with it.