Using xcopy to copy multiple files/directories, some of which have spaces

Question

I'm trying to use xcopy to copy over several files and directories onto an external hard drive. The following command works fine...

xcopy d:\location\folder /e 

... except it's not copying over any files/directories withing d:/location/folder that have spaces. I understand that Windows requires file names with spaces need to be enclosed in quotes, but what do I do if I'm trying to do a huge recursive copy where there may be several files or folders with spaces in the name?

Solution 1

Use quotes:

xcopy "d:\location\folder" /e 

Solution 2

You should use quotes the following way:

xcopy "d:location\folder\anotherfolder\folder with spaces"

Note the unit letter and the colon go outside the quotes and no \ at the beginning either.

Comments

[MT3]

Hmm, I tried that, but still the same thing. It doesn't copy folders within that directory that have spaces. For example: [d:\location\folder\anotherfolder\folder with spaces]