David Virgil Hobbs
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Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:24 pm Post subject:
Windows aborts copying of large folders how solved? |
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Windows aborts copying of large folders
I tried to copy a large folder containing subfolders stuffed with
things, from a CD in an XP computer to the hard drive in the XP
computer. About half way through the copying, windows announced that
it could not copy something because the thing was "corrupted" and
"unreadable". Then it simply aborted the copying of the folder, so
that half the folder was not copied!
Then in a Millenium operating system computer I tried to copy my
favorites folder from the hard drive to a CD, and about a third of the
way through, I got a message box saying:
error copying file or folder
cannot create or replace (beginning of long filename)..._files
There is already a file with the same as the folder name you
specified. Specify a different name.
And after presenting me this message box, Windows aborted the copying
of the favorites folder so most of it was not copied!
I am amazed at how laconic the Windows help section, Newsgroups, and
the web are when it comes to what I would think is a very common
problem, the copying of folders containing alot of stuff being aborted
because some file in the folder to be copied is defective. It is
surprising that Windows cannot just allow the copying to proceed to
the end leaving out the messed up files!!!
Above happened at a point about one third of the way through copying
the favorites folder
to disk. |
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
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Sun Oct 31, 2004 4:31 am Post subject:
Re: Windows aborts copying of large folders how solved? |
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David Virgil Hobbs wrote:
| Quote: | Windows aborts copying of large folders
I tried to copy a large folder containing subfolders stuffed with
things, from a CD in an XP computer to the hard drive in the XP
computer. About half way through the copying, windows announced that
it could not copy something because the thing was "corrupted" and
"unreadable". Then it simply aborted the copying of the folder, so
that half the folder was not copied!
Then in a Millenium operating system computer I tried to copy my
favorites folder from the hard drive to a CD, and about a third of the
way through, I got a message box saying:
error copying file or folder
cannot create or replace (beginning of long filename)..._files
There is already a file with the same as the folder name you
specified. Specify a different name.
And after presenting me this message box, Windows aborted the copying
of the favorites folder so most of it was not copied!
I am amazed at how laconic the Windows help section, Newsgroups, and
the web are when it comes to what I would think is a very common
problem, the copying of folders containing alot of stuff being aborted
because some file in the folder to be copied is defective. It is
surprising that Windows cannot just allow the copying to proceed to
the end leaving out the messed up files!!!
Above happened at a point about one third of the way through copying
the favorites folder
to disk.
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Can't speak to WinME, but for XP:
If you're copying a lot of stuff, don't use Explorer. Try robocopy from the
NT/W2k/W2003 Resource Kit - it is a very powerful command line copy utility
that won't copy over newer/same items, can retry failed copies, and will
continue on bypassing a failed item without puking. The native xcopy isn't
too bad, but I prefer robocopy. |
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