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Clueless in Seattle
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      3rd May 2007
I'm trying to copy a large number of files from a folder on one
computer to a folder on a second computer I have connected to the
first one in a peer-to-peer network.

Here's how I tried to do it:

In the source folder I clicked Edit>Select All>Copy to Folder... and
then selected the folder on the destination machine.

But when I clicked "OK" I got this error message:

Error Copying File or Folder
---------------------------------------
(X) Cannot copy file: Cannot read from the source file or disk.

So I tried copying just a single file between the same folders, and
that worked just fine.

So, I suspect that I may have one or more problem files in the source
folder. But the error message doesn't tell me which file (or files)
is the problem.

I certainly don't want to have to manually copy each one of the
hundreds of files manually one at a time.

How may I determine the origin of this error?

Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"

(Once know as (E-Mail Removed), but I messed up and lost
that i.d. and am not sure how to get it back)

 
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Dave Patrick
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      6th May 2007
This article may help.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814594

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"Clueless in Seattle" wrote:
> I'm trying to copy a large number of files from a folder on one
> computer to a folder on a second computer I have connected to the
> first one in a peer-to-peer network.
>
> Here's how I tried to do it:
>
> In the source folder I clicked Edit>Select All>Copy to Folder... and
> then selected the folder on the destination machine.
>
> But when I clicked "OK" I got this error message:
>
> Error Copying File or Folder
> ---------------------------------------
> (X) Cannot copy file: Cannot read from the source file or disk.
>
> So I tried copying just a single file between the same folders, and
> that worked just fine.
>
> So, I suspect that I may have one or more problem files in the source
> folder. But the error message doesn't tell me which file (or files)
> is the problem.
>
> I certainly don't want to have to manually copy each one of the
> hundreds of files manually one at a time.
>
> How may I determine the origin of this error?
>
> Will in Seattle
> a.k.a. "Clueless"
>
> (Once know as (E-Mail Removed), but I messed up and lost
> that i.d. and am not sure how to get it back)
>

 
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