insufficient memory error

[djc]

windows 2000 sp4.

after performing this:

xcopy x:\*.* e:\dest\*.* /c /h /e /f /y /z /r

it ran and ran... as it should but the last lines of output said:
"Insufficient Memory" then
"10050 File(s) copied"

I assume the error is self explanatory... but I don't know exactly what
happened? x: is a mapped network drive and I am copying roughly 8GBs of data
over the network. Does this error mean that it did not finish copying all
the files? I can't just compare the source and dest file counts because
there are other files in the dest as well. The machine has 512MB of memory
too... so I was suprised at the error? Could this error be misleading?
something else?

any info is appreciated, thanks.

 

[Matthias Tacke]

windows 2000 sp4.

after performing this:

xcopy x:\*.* e:\dest\*.* /c /h /e /f /y /z /r

it ran and ran... as it should but the last lines of output said:
"Insufficient Memory" then
"10050 File(s) copied"

I assume the error is self explanatory... but I don't know exactly what
happened? x: is a mapped network drive and I am copying roughly 8GBs of data
over the network. Does this error mean that it did not finish copying all
the files? I can't just compare the source and dest file counts because
there are other files in the dest as well. The machine has 512MB of memory
too... so I was suprised at the error? Could this error be misleading?
something else?

any info is appreciated, thanks.

May be your e: drive is full ?

review your options with
xcopy /?|findstr /I "\/c \/h \/e \/f \/y \/z \/r"

If you do a dir on your source disk, what number of files does it return?

To output only the summary of the dir :

dir x: /S /A|findstr "^[^0-9][^A-Z]"

That may take also some time.