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Trying to copy a folder to external HD
If you have nothing on the external HDD i recommend either formatting it, or seeing if you have encryption enabled on those folders. -- alexdagr8est There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those that don't. |
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Trying to copy a folder to external HD
Sam, have you had any luck so far?
If you know the partition and drive your folder is in, you can use the more powerful CMD.EXE (command prompt program) Just right click CMD.EXE and select Run as Administrator. Then type CD\ to put you in the Root directory. Change to your folder location and type XCOPY *.*/S (external drive letter)(folder name followed by a back slash to tell xcopy it is a folder) Hit Enter, Good Luck, Badger "SaminDallas" wrote in message ... No, that doesnt work either. I just tried to copy a single PDF file to the external HD, and that is giving same error; stating Could Not file file. Although the PDF file is selectable, and can be open on my computer. So it is definately there. I have Nortel AV running; I turned this off and still same problem. I see quite a few other people have seen this problem, as they are trying to delete files. I of course dont want to delete the file, but want to make a backup. SaminDallas -- SaminDallas |
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Trying to copy a folder to external HD
Sam, have you had any luck so far?
If you know the partition and drive your folder is in, you can use the more powerful CMD.EXE (command prompt program) Just right click CMD.EXE and select Run as Administrator. Then type CD\ to put you in the Root directory. Change to your folder location and type XCOPY *.*/S (external drive letter)(folder name followed by a back slash to tell xcopy it is a folder) Hit Enter, Good Luck, Badger "SaminDallas" wrote in message ... No, that doesnt work either. I just tried to copy a single PDF file to the external HD, and that is giving same error; stating Could Not file file. Although the PDF file is selectable, and can be open on my computer. So it is definately there. I have Nortel AV running; I turned this off and still same problem. I see quite a few other people have seen this problem, as they are trying to delete files. I of course dont want to delete the file, but want to make a backup. SaminDallas -- SaminDallas |
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Trying to copy a folder to external HD
Am afraid I still have the problem. I tried the software program suggested in one of the answers, I tried xcopy and robocopy. Robocopy states file not there. Am still not sure what issue is. I suspect root cause is some type of folder registry or index is getting screwed up. I wonder if Windows 7 will fix this, SaminDallas -- SaminDallas |
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Trying to copy a folder to external HD
Am afraid I still have the problem. I tried the software program suggested in one of the answers, I tried xcopy and robocopy. Robocopy states file not there. Am still not sure what issue is. I suspect root cause is some type of folder registry or index is getting screwed up. I wonder if Windows 7 will fix this, SaminDallas -- SaminDallas |
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Trying to copy a folder to external HD
Maybe its an issue with my external hard disk drive. I am able to copy the PDF file to another folder within the C: drive. But the "Could not find file" error message shows up when I try to copy to the external G: drive. The external G: drive is a NTFS drive. By the way - I have just signed up for an online remote backup service ! -- SaminDallas |
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Trying to copy a folder to external HD
Maybe its an issue with my external hard disk drive. I am able to copy the PDF file to another folder within the C: drive. But the "Could not find file" error message shows up when I try to copy to the external G: drive. The external G: drive is a NTFS drive. By the way - I have just signed up for an online remote backup service ! -- SaminDallas |
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Trying to copy a folder to external HD
Ok - well I signed up for Mozy, and success! After several days of Mozy uploading the files all my files are backed up. Its seems a pretty good system, plus the backup is not located in same office - its on external servers. I havent fixed original problem. I have no idea what issue is; I suspect an issue in the bowels of Microsoft. If other people are trying to do what I did, to make a local backup copy, and you cannot due to bug - you may want to consider external online backup service. -- SaminDallas |
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Trying to copy a folder to external HD
Ok - well I signed up for Mozy, and success! After several days of Mozy uploading the files all my files are backed up. Its seems a pretty good system, plus the backup is not located in same office - its on external servers. I havent fixed original problem. I have no idea what issue is; I suspect an issue in the bowels of Microsoft. If other people are trying to do what I did, to make a local backup copy, and you cannot due to bug - you may want to consider external online backup service. -- SaminDallas |
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