The easiest way to prepare RichCopy command line parameters

RichCopy is a free and powerful tool for copying files and folders. It has a nice GUI and can also be run from the command line. The command line option is very useful for scripts and batch operations.

All of the power and good stuff about RichCopy breeds a whole lot of complexity. The command line option has many possible parameters. The parameters are listed in the help file, but only with a short description, which makes it hard to manually construct the copy command.

GUI to the rescue

RichCopy’s GUI has a very nice, but hidden feature for building command line parameters. Following the steps below you can set all the options in the GUI and then generate the command line parameters.

1. Switch to Advanced View
   Open menu option View and select Advanced.
   
2. Select source and destination folders
3. Select appropriate options in the File copy options dialog
4. Select Others in the tree view
   
5. Copy command line parameters
   

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