I'm wondering if there is any way in Windows (or with a free/cheap utility)
to
copy files where, if one or a few files are bad or locked or otherwise can't
be
read....the entire copy doesn't just stop.

I am trying to use right-click, drag-and-drop, then COPY. I'm trying to
copy
an entire directory that has many subdirectories and 100s of files. But if
one or
a few of the files is locked or otherwise unreadable, the copy just stops at
that
file.

In the "old days" i would use XCOPY and it would continue on even if any
one file was not copyable. I could use XCOPY, I suppose, but navigating
and typing the really long directory names is a pain.

Any way to do this in Windows-XP or with a utility?

Thanks,
Gary

xcopy still works in XP!

"jabadoodle" wrote:

>
> I'm wondering if there is any way in Windows (or with a free/cheap utility)
> to
> copy files where, if one or a few files are bad or locked or otherwise can't
> be
> read....the entire copy doesn't just stop.
>
> I am trying to use right-click, drag-and-drop, then COPY. I'm trying to
> copy
> an entire directory that has many subdirectories and 100s of files. But if
> one or
> a few of the files is locked or otherwise unreadable, the copy just stops at
> that
> file.
>
> In the "old days" i would use XCOPY and it would continue on even if any
> one file was not copyable. I could use XCOPY, I suppose, but navigating
> and typing the really long directory names is a pain.
>
> Any way to do this in Windows-XP or with a utility?
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
>
>

"unstopcopy"


On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:18:45 -0500, "jabadoodle" <jabadoodle@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>I'm wondering if there is any way in Windows (or with a free/cheap utility)
>to
>copy files where, if one or a few files are bad or locked or otherwise can't
>be
>read....the entire copy doesn't just stop.
>
>I am trying to use right-click, drag-and-drop, then COPY. I'm trying to
>copy
>an entire directory that has many subdirectories and 100s of files. But if
>one or
>a few of the files is locked or otherwise unreadable, the copy just stops at
>that
>file.
>
>In the "old days" i would use XCOPY and it would continue on even if any
>one file was not copyable. I could use XCOPY, I suppose, but navigating
>and typing the really long directory names is a pain.
>
>Any way to do this in Windows-XP or with a utility?
>
>Thanks,
>Gary
>


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xcopy /m

"Josh Assing" <XjoshX@jassing.com> wrote in message
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> "unstopcopy"
>
>


unstopcopy. Found it. Thanks.

"Simon" <simontaylor83@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> xcopy /m


Should that have been xcopy /c


>>>>>
Copies files and directory trees.

XCOPY source [destination] [/A | /M] [/D[:date]] [/P] [/S [/E]] [/V] [/W]
.....
/M Copies only files with the archive attribute set,
turns off the archive attribute.
.....
/C Continues copying even if errors occur.
Alan

Opps,

Apologies yes it should have been /c