Hot to keep file copy from stopping?

From: John Schmidt (johnaec-nospam-_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 10/17/05


Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:06:46 -0700

This has driven me crazy ever since the beginning of Windows Explorer.

Why the heck do copy operations force you to cancel when finding even one
"access denied" file??? How can you get Windows to skip that one and
continue copying the rest???

I need to move about 50 gigs of files to a new drive, and every now and then
it comes across one of these, forcing me to track it down, then start the
operation all over again, since you have no idea where the copy operation
left off. This is ridiculous!!!! There were only 16 minutes to go out of
over 4 hours, and this is the 3rd time I've had to start over!! (I thought
I'd fixed all the files, but a new one just popped up.)

How can I keep these few files from aborting file copy operations??? I can't
believe that Explorer thinks because you find even one file like this, it
cancels the whole operation. There must be a way around this.

Thanks for any suggestions.

John



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