how to skip while copying ?

[haig1]

hi all,

It sometimes happen that few files which might be corrupted on CD Rom
can't be copied. But when I try to copy all contents of CD, the copying
process entirely stops when it encounters any file which can't be
read!!! I would rather prefer to skip such files and copy the
remaining uncorrupted files.

Is there any way out by changng some options?
I am using windows XP.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Newtechie]

What I would do in my opinion is select all the files on the CD (CTRL+A),
then ctrl+left click the ones that are corrupt and copy that way.

HTH,
newtechie

 

[Marc]

hi all,

It sometimes happen that few files which might be corrupted on CD Rom
can't be copied. But when I try to copy all contents of CD, the copying
process entirely stops when it encounters any file which can't be
read!!! I would rather prefer to skip such files and copy the
remaining uncorrupted files.

Is there any way out by changng some options?
I am using windows XP.

It sucks but i dont think it can be changed!

 

[Bob I]

use xcopy from the command line. XCOPY /? for usage

 

[haig1]

But i don't know which are the corrupt files ! And I have many
subfolders within each folder and they form deep root tree. So it
becomes impossible to find them out and do ctrl+left.

It would be better it the "copy" routine in xp skip the corrupted files
and proceed copying remaining files (atleast after asking me) instead
of terminating the copying process itself.

I remember doing such things in former version ( i dont knwo if I am
wrong)

Is there any effective way?

 

[Newtechie]

Well Bob I suggests using the XCOPY command.

I'm not familiar with XP being able to skip over corrupted files so I can't
help you there.

You say you don't know which ones are the corrupt files, but when you copy
them do you not see the files being transferred?

newtechie

 

[Bill Sharpe]

Well Bob I suggests using the XCOPY command.

I'm not familiar with XP being able to skip over corrupted files so I can't
help you there.

You say you don't know which ones are the corrupt files, but when you copy
them do you not see the files being transferred?

newtechie

This problem occurs when trying to copy, move, or delete files. The
suspect files are not necessarily corrupt, but may be "in use" so that
no operations can be performed on them.

Windows just stops the file operation when it first encounters such a
file rather than ignoring the operation on that file and skipping to the
next file.

I consider this a "Windows annoyance" rather than a serious problem. For
files "in use" starting in safe mode often solves the problem. Still it
would be nice if MS would fix the problem.