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    XCopy Tool not finishing, then locks

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    by silvrsabr ·

    I am using Windows 7 Professional in 64-bit.
    It is installed on a H-P xw8600, dual quad Xeon.
    Windows Explorer fails to fully copy in several attempts. It took a while to discover I had lost some important FOLDERS, so I searched for alternatives.
    Now, XCopy Tool seems to have the same problem, plus locking up.
    Any ideas out there ?
    Thanks in advance if someone can help.

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    • #3029593

      Clarifications

      by silvrsabr ·

      In reply to XCopy Tool not finishing, then locks

      Clarifications

    • #3029557

      Robocopy

      by craig_b ·

      In reply to XCopy Tool not finishing, then locks

      I don’t have enough information to determine what is the root cause of the problem however you may want to try robocopy. Robocopy is built into Win 7, just go to a cmd prompt, robocopy /? will display all the options and there are alot.

      The most common ones I use are:
      robocopy source dest /e /r:2 /w:5 /np /log:path\filename /mt /xo

      source and dest are the paths or urls to the folders.
      /e copy all folders and subfolders, even empty ones.
      /r:2 Retry 2 times on copy failure (can be set to a different number)
      /w:5 Wait 5 seconds between retries (can be set to a different number)
      /np Don’t display file completion percentage
      /log:path/filename Keep a log of actions
      /mt Use multi-threaded copy
      /xo eXclude Older (Overwrite old files with newer files)

      Example: robcopy c:\data d:\backup /e /r:2 /w:5 /np /log:c:\robolog.txt /mt

      Review the logs for any errors.

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