TeraCopy use? [solved]

[eil]

help file says to add line to custom copy handler and i added, checked to use it, but it says "TeraCopy failed."

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TeraCopy|d:\ProgramFiles\TeraCopy\TeraCopy.exe|/close

what i do wrong? lately i quite often need to copy folder excluding some files/folders in subs, and as Xycopy can't do that, i have to make Tera work.

[serendipity]

help file says to add line to custom copy handler and i added, checked to use it, but it says "TeraCopy failed."

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TeraCopy|d:\ProgramFiles\TeraCopy\TeraCopy.exe|/close

what i do wrong? lately i quite often need to copy folder excluding some files/folders in subs, and as Xycopy can't do that, i have to make Tera work.

This is my config and it works fine.

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TeraCopy|C:\Program Files (x86)\TeraCopy\TeraCopy.exe| /RenameAll /Close

Check your path carefully, I got the same message first then realized my path was wrong.

[eil]

with all the smartness of XY about cutting spaces etc, never would think the culprit is a space(!) between | and drive-letter especially as space after caption(before first |), after path and before switches don't matter.
anyway thanks serendipity.

[Filehero]

with all the smartness of XY about cutting spaces etc, never would think the culprit is a space(!) between | and drive-letter especially as space after caption(before first |), after path and before switches don't matter.

in "Programming" there are some rules which have simply have to be followed otherwise the whole thing would become even more unpredictable as it already is.

edit: seems your TeraCopy home isn't a standard Windows program folder anyway
[code]ProgramFiles[/code] is simply an non-existing folder on any default windows installation, especially it is unknown to Windows as a standard home of program files/components.

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d:\ProgramFiles\TeraCopy\TeraCopy.exe/close

to which your config is assembled wouldn't simply work because it would be interpreted as, 1) an invalid path (because of the "/"), which is 2) nonetheless non-existing as well.

The Windows shell simply requires to state all parameters seperated by a space.

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d:\Program Files\TeraCopy\TeraCopy.exe /close

It's a rule and nothing to discuss further.

Yes, one could argue that XY could insert a space if there's none before the 1st char of the parameter sequence.

But as every single parameter has be seprated by a space this could introduce new troubles for others. Which looks better, more consistent?

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TeraCopy|d:\ProgramFiles\TeraCopy\TeraCopy.exe|/paramA  /paramB

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TeraCopy|d:\ProgramFiles\TeraCopy\TeraCopy.exe| /paramA  /paramB

To me it's the latter.


Cheers,
Filehero

PS: NY is back.

[eil]

The Windows shell simply requires to state all parameters seperated by a space.

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d:\Program Files\TeraCopy\TeraCopy.exe /close

It's a rule and nothing to discuss further.

Yes, one could argue that XY could insert a space if there's none before the 1st char of the parameter sequence.

the point was not to argue about XY but to point a trap for those may get in trouble like me. anyone could use whatever names/pathes one prefers especially if no strict "NO" stated.

"_" would be for " ".
TeraCopy_|d:\ProgramFiles\TeraCopy\TeraCopy.exe|/close/renameall
TeraCopy_|d:\ProgramFiles\TeraCopy\TeraCopy.exe_|/close/renameall
TeraCopy_|d:\ProgramFiles\TeraCopy\TeraCopy.exe_|_/close/renameall
TeraCopy_|d:\ProgramFiles\TeraCopy\TeraCopy.exe_|_/close/_renameall
all these works.

TeraCopy|_d:\ProgramFiles\TeraCopy\TeraCopy.exe|/close/renameall
the only not working variant.