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First choice was to copy Owner's Documents, which contains them both Outlook
and My Documents, to my External Hard Disk Drive. But this takes too long
and stops me any, when it says another program is in use and conflicting. So
my next option, copying first Outlook then My Documents, works fine, but I
would like to send them both to copy at once if possible. Then walk away.
Anyway to do this?
 
Mark said:
First choice was to copy Owner's Documents, which contains them both Outlook
and My Documents, to my External Hard Disk Drive. But this takes too long
and stops me any, when it says another program is in use and conflicting. So
my next option, copying first Outlook then My Documents, works fine, but I
would like to send them both to copy at once if possible. Then walk away.
Anyway to do this?
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What can we say? Very little information here about the computer,
its physical specification, esp. amount of memory, CPU speed,
capabilities such as USB vs. Firewire to the external drive, and
so on. There is a big difference between a computer with a 1 GHz
CPU and 256 MB RAM versus one with a 3.2 GHz and 1 GB of RAM, or
USB 1.1 vs. USB 2.0 or USB vs. Firewire, etc.
 
Mark said:
First choice was to copy Owner's Documents, which contains them both
Outlook
and My Documents, to my External Hard Disk Drive. But this takes too
long
and stops me any, when it says another program is in use and
conflicting. So my next option, copying first Outlook then My
Documents, works fine, but I
would like to send them both to copy at once if possible. Then walk
away. Anyway to do this?
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SecondCopy from www.centered.com works very well for this. You don't
want to copy the entire My Documents, just the data. You are trying to
copy hidden files that are in use and that's why you're getting the
error.

Malke
 
Malke said:
SecondCopy from www.centered.com works very well for this. You don't
want to copy the entire My Documents, just the data. You are trying to
copy hidden files that are in use and that's why you're getting the
error.

Malke
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What "hidden" files are in My Documents?
 
Gordon said:
What "hidden" files are in My Documents?
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I had a client who was running into a similar issue. With her, it was
that she was copying the My Documents file from a second computer to an
external drive connected to a different computer. For her, it was a
problem with the root of Documents and Settings/username with the
ntuser files which naturally were in use (which of course aren't inside
the My Documents folder and yet this was what the holdup was). Upon
re-reading the OP's question, this may not be the same situation or
problem if he's only trying to copy My Documents on the same computer.

I should have asked the OP for more details first. Hopefully he'll come
back and enlighten us.

Malke
 
Malke said:
I had a client who was running into a similar issue. With her, it was
that she was copying the My Documents file from a second computer to an
external drive connected to a different computer. For her, it was a
problem with the root of Documents and Settings/username with the
ntuser files which naturally were in use (which of course aren't inside
the My Documents folder and yet this was what the holdup was).
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Wow. How did you figure THAT one out?

Upon
re-reading the OP's question, this may not be the same situation or
problem if he's only trying to copy My Documents on the same computer.

I should have asked the OP for more details first. Hopefully he'll come
back and enlighten us.

Malke
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The only thing that springs to mind is that if the OP has moved his Outlook
pst file to within My Documents, a) does it still become a hidden file and
b) has he closed Outlook?
 
My computer is Windows 2002 1.73 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, 80 GB Hard Disk. If My
Documents (or Owner's Documents or whatever else it's called) and Outlook
were on same level, I could highlight both at once with Control key and copy
them all at once. But since they are not both on same level, I can't. So I
am looking for another one shot copy method. I tried using Explorer. But
the left side doesn't let me highlight these two folders at once and copy at
once.
 
Gordon said:
The only thing that springs to mind is that if the OP has moved his
Outlook pst file to within My Documents, a) does it still become a
hidden file and b) has he closed Outlook?
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No, the backup.pst doesn't become hidden. As I said, I should have just
asked the OP for more details. There's no way to really know what's
going on. I hadn't had enough coffee and the daylight savings time
change always plays havoc with me.

Since it doesn't look like he's coming back, I'm not going to worry
about it.

Best regards,

Malke
 
Mark said:
My computer is Windows 2002 1.73 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, 80 GB Hard Disk. If My
Documents (or Owner's Documents or whatever else it's called) and Outlook
were on same level, I could highlight both at once with Control key and copy
them all at once. But since they are not both on same level, I can't. So I
am looking for another one shot copy method. I tried using Explorer. But
the left side doesn't let me highlight these two folders at once and copy at
once.
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Considered using multiple Explorer Windows, for the source
and target folders? Windows XP should certainly be capable
of multi-tasking simple chores such as this.
 
How do you do this?

Mistoffolees said:
Considered using multiple Explorer Windows, for the source
and target folders? Windows XP should certainly be capable
of multi-tasking simple chores such as this.
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