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by wesley.chin

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There is data that is on a external hard drive. The data on it needs to be transferred to a new external hard drive. It seems that there is one particular folder that will not transfer. The attributes on the folder have it as read only, as it is with other folders that can be transferred. Any ideas on what might be causing this?

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by tintoman

to change the read only status in the properties of the folder
Depending on what type of file this is you might get away with it at that

by robo_dev

Look at the security settings of that folder and it's files. If you're logged in with admin priviledges, you can take ownership of the files.

In some cases you may need to boot from CD such as BART PE and access the drive directly that way.

I assume this is a Vista box??

by wesley.chin

I have tried changing the attributes of the folder, but that did not work.

This box is XP Pro.

The external harddrives had been connected to different computers, and are now connected to the same computer.

There is one particular folder that will not copy. When the individual contents of that folder are copied over, there is success, strangely. Kind of makes me curious as to what prevented the copy of the entire folder at once vs. copying individually. Any ideas?

Also, is data transfer between 2 drives on a computer faster than if the drives were connected to different computers? The computer are connected via ethernet cable so that file sharing is enabled.

by oh smeg

There is something set on the Folders Attributes that you are not seeing here. Or depending on the contents there may be a corrupted file in the folder. But the last depends on the file type in the folder Pictures & Music are the most likely suspects here not Data files.

[i]Also, is data transfer between 2 drives on a computer faster than if the drives were connected to different computers? The computer are connected via ethernet cable so that file sharing is enabled.[/i]

Way to may variables to give an accurate answer to this question as it Depends on the USB Controllers Scripting to see just how well it handled communicating with 2 External Devices. As for the LAN Part of the question this also depends on how well the USB Controlled delivers data to the system to transfer across the LAN and how fast the LAN Actually is.

Some USB Controllers are faster if you copy to a Internal HDD and then back to a different External HDD, others will work quite happily with a two device communication going.

Col

by wesley.chin

The files that are in the folder are either AutoCAD files or traffic analysis files.

The connection was set up before I came here, and no one remembers how it was set up or who had done it.

by oh smeg

As for the inability to copy the Folder it really sounds like a Permissions Issue. If this unit is on a Domain it could be a GP Rule or something like that but I'm guessing as you no doubt are as well.

Depending on the situation it may be better to just rebuild the unit and set it up as you want it to be rather than attempting to workout what has been done.

Col

by wesley.chin

There is no server here, though I have been told recently that there is a domain. Which is kind of surprising. But if there is a domain, then GP could definitely be something to look at.

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