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Hyblocker
Hyblocker

Reputation: 101

XCopy is not working (File not found *.*)

I'm tyring to copy a folder from my Visual Studio 2015 Project's root directory into the output directory (as it breaks the application without it), so I decided to add xcopy to the post-build commands.

xcopy "$(SolutionDir)Content\*.*" "$(TargetDir)Content\" /s /i /y

I'm getting the following when it runs, and right now I can't even test this application because of xcopy.

1>  File not found - *.*
1>  0 File(s) copied
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(4714,5): error MSB3073: The command "xcopy "E:\Data\Projects\Vessel\Games\TheThing\Content\*.*" "E:\Data\Projects\Vessel\Games\TheThing\TheThing\bin\DesktopGL\AnyCPU\Debug\Content\" /s /i /y" exited with code 4.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3281

Answers (1)

Willie
Willie

Reputation: 382

I'm also getting problems with Xcopy and postbuild events in visual studio from time to time. My fix is generally to create a batch script which contains the xcopy.

The batch script then is called by:

call "$(SolutionDir)scripts\copyfiles.bat"

as a post script event.

Upvotes: 1

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