Hi Eswar,
Thank you for the reply, I'd tried the full path option, with and without quotes but that doesn't work.
I made one step; I decided to test with only one directory and one file and found that the syntasource directory was not correct
mkdir C:\DELETE
robocopy "D:\" "D:\DELETE" /E /MOV /NP /XD "Dir 1" "Dir 20 00" "Dir3" /XF "File 1.dll" "File 2 0 .txt" /R:10 /W:30
rmdir "c:\DELETE" /s /Q
robocopy "D:\" must be robocopy "D:", now its moving the directories and files to the DELETE directorie. but the script stops because it cannot copy the hidden 'System Volume Informatuion" directory.