How to do a COPY that will not halt if one file is bad ??

[jabadoodle]

I'm wondering if there is any way in Windows (or with a free/cheap utility)
to
copy files where, if one or a few files are bad or locked or otherwise can't
be
read....the entire copy doesn't just stop.

I am trying to use right-click, drag-and-drop, then COPY. I'm trying to
copy
an entire directory that has many subdirectories and 100s of files. But if
one or
a few of the files is locked or otherwise unreadable, the copy just stops at
that
file.

In the "old days" i would use XCOPY and it would continue on even if any
one file was not copyable. I could use XCOPY, I suppose, but navigating
and typing the really long directory names is a pain.

Any way to do this in Windows-XP or with a utility?

Thanks,
Gary

 

[Guest]

xcopy still works in XP!

 

[Josh Assing]

"unstopcopy"

I'm wondering if there is any way in Windows (or with a free/cheap utility)
to
copy files where, if one or a few files are bad or locked or otherwise can't
be
read....the entire copy doesn't just stop.

I am trying to use right-click, drag-and-drop, then COPY. I'm trying to
copy
an entire directory that has many subdirectories and 100s of files. But if
one or
a few of the files is locked or otherwise unreadable, the copy just stops at
that
file.

In the "old days" i would use XCOPY and it would continue on even if any
one file was not copyable. I could use XCOPY, I suppose, but navigating
and typing the really long directory names is a pain.

Any way to do this in Windows-XP or with a utility?

Thanks,
Gary

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[Simon]

xcopy /m

 

[jabadoodle]

"unstopcopy"

unstopcopy. Found it. Thanks.

 

[Alan Morris]

xcopy /m

Should that have been xcopy /c

Copies files and directory trees.

XCOPY source [destination] [/A | /M] [/D[:date]] [/P] [/S [/E]] [/V] [/W]
.....
/M Copies only files with the archive attribute set,
turns off the archive attribute.
.....
/C Continues copying even if errors occur.
Alan

 

[Simon]

Opps,

Apologies yes it should have been /c