[ACCEPTED]-MSBuild - how to copy files that may or may not exist?-copy

Accepted answer

Score: 52

Use the Exists condition on Copy task.

<CreateItem Include="*.xml">
  <Output ItemName="ItemsThatNeedToBeCopied" TaskParameter="Include"/>
</CreateItem>

<Copy SourceFiles="@(ItemsThatNeedToBeCopied)"
      DestinationFolder="$(OutputDir)"
      Condition="Exists('%(RootDir)%(Directory)%(Filename)%(Extension)')"/>

Score: 7

The easiest would be to use the ContinueOnError 3 flag http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7z253716.aspx

<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">

    <ItemGroup>
        <MySourceFiles Include="a.cs;b.cs;c.cs"/>
    </ItemGroup>

    <Target Name="CopyFiles">
        <Copy
            SourceFiles="@(MySourceFiles)"
            DestinationFolder="c:\MyProject\Destination"
            ContinueOnError="true"
        />
    </Target>

</Project>

But if something else is wrong you 2 will not notice it. So the condition exist 1 from madgnome's answer would be better.

Score: 1

It looks like you can mark MySourceFiles 2 as SkipUnchangedFiles="true" and it won't 1 copy the files if they already exist.

Source: stackoverflow.com

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