Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Windows fails to copy files

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Any possibility of really deep paths or long filenames?  Those are 
usually the culprit behind file copy problems for me in windows.  
Another is large file sizes on volumes with different 
formats/allocation-tables.

Mike Miller wrote:
> I was copying a bunch of files from the C drive to an external drive using 
> the usual Windows method of dragging and dropping a folder icon, but a few 
> subdirectories were copied empty so that the files were missing in the 
> copy.  There was no error message or warning.  That struck me as odd.  A 
> second problem was that sometimes Windows would stop copying and it would 
> tell me that it was unable to read the source drive.  That seemed very 
> peculiar because if I went to the subdirectory that failed to copy and 
> simply copied those files to the target location, they would copy 
> instantly with no error.
>
> This seems to be more than typical Windows mediocrity.  Have any of you 
> seen this before?  Any idea what is wrong?
>
> Mike
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