Continue copying after an error

S

Scott

Hi,

Is there a way to make Windows Explorer continue copying after an error?
For example, say I mark oh 50GB of data that I want to copy to a network
drive. 2/3 thru the copy, a file is locked, a path is too long, etc. So I
get an error dialogue from Windows Explorer. THEN IT CRAPS OUT. Ok, so
there was an error on the *ONE* file copy operation, but why cancel the rest
of the copy? What I want is an Ignore / Retry / Abort type of dialogue,
where Ignore means continue with the rest of the copy.

Alternatively, does XCOPY have the same shortcoming, or will it continue
with the rest of the copy operation?

Thanks,
Scott
 
J

Jim

"help xcopy" from cmd line indicates there's a /C option that should do the
trick!

HTH

Jim
 
S

Scott

Thanks Jim it does help. Out of curiosity more than anything...is there a
way to configure Windows Explorer not to cancel the remainder of a copy when
it can't copy a particular file?
 
R

Rob Schneider

As far as I know, no.

Another good copy program is robocopy, available free from Microsoft in
the Windows 2003 Server Resource Kit ... works also for XP. With this
amound of data you are moving, robocopy could be an advantage.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms
 

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