Hi all, I need someone with more knowledge than I have!

I am writing a DOS command set to back up my files to another hard disk. I am USING xcopy and all worked fine until I moved to France. I now have an AZERTY rather than a QWERTY keyboard and Windows XP is a French version.

To save the folder 'Mes DOCUMENTS' (My Documents) I have to enter ""C:\Documents and Settings\Propriétaire\Mes Documents\*.*". However the xcopy fails with the message that it cannot find ""C:\Documents and Settings\Propriútaire\Mes Documents\*.*" See the difference? The é has been seen as ú.

Any bright ideas on how to fix would be much appreciated. I have tried renaming my 'Propriétaire' folder 'owner' but Windows won't let me.

Best regards and thanks !I think Mac runs a French and English XP. Perhaps he will be along to assist. Thanks for your suggestions MAC and others:

Although fearful that it's me that hasn't understood fully what to do, here's where I now stand:
1) My account name is simply 'Home'. Propriétaire doesn't appear anywhere, so I'm unable to change it.
2) I've tried putting the short names in my launched bat file , but this makes no difference. DOS still reports that it can't find my source file.

thank you Mac for your ideas.

I have now moved all my personal files out of 'Mes Documents' and rehoused them in a folder directly in C: This allows xcopy to work fine. It's a BIT inconvenient as Windows always wants to shove things into Mes Documents by default, so I'll have to go around changing all the links.

I like xcopy because I can put the bat file launching the copies as a scheduled task to RUN whenever the computer has been idle for 10 minutes. As xcopy only writes new and changed files, this gives me a MIRROR of any changes to my files ten minutes after I leave the desk. Neat.