I was trying out the cmd ability to merge videos together but forgot to type a destination for the merged video

I was using this format:

copy /B "C:\vid1.mpg"+ "C:\vid2.mpg" "C:\completevid.mpg"

except I accidentally forgot the " C:\completevid.mpg" part so now I don't know where the file went...or did it not even get created because it wasn't directed onto the hard drive?

If it did get created, how do I get rid of it?

Thanks,
Freelancer

 

Do a search with *.mpg as file name and sort by Date Created.

 

Nothing shows up in the search.
I don't think it was created since....it wasn't specified to be created on the hard drive and there's no where else.. >_<

 

If no new file showed up when you do a search of *.mpg, then it's not created. If you want to be 100% sure, do a search on *.* and sort by Date Created and look at the Size, you will easily see if there is any temp file created from that. But I don't think the file is created.

 

It didnt get created because you didnt give it an output location or filename.

 

Well I did a simple experiment:

Code:

C:\Users\nick\scratch\test>dir
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 2865-1E83

 Directory of C:\Users\nick\scratch\test

08/01/2008  11:59 AM    DIR          .
08/01/2008  11:59 AM    DIR          ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  17,909,608,448 bytes free

C:\Users\nick\scratch\test>echo 123 > test1.txt

C:\Users\nick\scratch\test>echo abc > test2.txt

C:\Users\nick\scratch\test>dir
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 2865-1E83

 Directory of C:\Users\nick\scratch\test

08/01/2008  11:59 AM    DIR          .
08/01/2008  11:59 AM    DIR          ..
08/01/2008  11:59 AM                 6 test1.txt
08/01/2008  11:59 AM                 6 test2.txt
               2 File(s)             12 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  17,909,460,992 bytes free

C:\Users\nick\scratch\test>type test1.txt
123

C:\Users\nick\scratch\test>type test2.txt
abc

C:\Users\nick\scratch\test>copy /B "test1.txt"+ "test2.txt"
test1.txt
test2.txt
        1 file(s) copied.

C:\Users\nick\scratch\test>dir
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 2865-1E83

 Directory of C:\Users\nick\scratch\test

08/01/2008  11:59 AM    DIR          .
08/01/2008  11:59 AM    DIR          ..
08/01/2008  11:59 AM                12 test1.txt
08/01/2008  11:59 AM                 6 test2.txt
               2 File(s)             18 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  17,909,387,264 bytes free

C:\Users\nick\scratch\test>type test1.txt
123
abc

C:\Users\nick\scratch\test>type test2.txt
abc

So... looking at that... can you tell where it put the merged file?

btw... I didn't know you could merge files like that with the copy command... thanks for the tip.