mouse copy/paste

[sali]

xp, having folder with 150 text files, displayed in win explorer right pane.
wanting to copy them all.
select first, shift-rightclick last to select whole range. but when
right-clicking on selection to make pop-up for copy, nothing happens.

the same time, pressing ctrl-a, ctrl-c on [same as above] selected right
pane, and later ctrl-v on destination folder make copy/past.

is my win xp config wrong since i may not have right click pop-up on
selected 150 files, while on ther same time keyboard shortcuts work as
expected? gui copy of small number of files still works with mouse as
expected.

does it mean that keyboard shortcuts are more powerfull than gui mouse
copy/paste?

[not to say that copying from cmd prompt "copy *.txt newfolder" also work
for unlimited number of files]

any comment?
thnx

 

[Malke]

xp, having folder with 150 text files, displayed in win explorer right
pane. wanting to copy them all.
select first, shift-rightclick last to select whole range. but when
right-clicking on selection to make pop-up for copy, nothing happens.

the same time, pressing ctrl-a, ctrl-c on [same as above] selected
right pane, and later ctrl-v on destination folder make copy/past.

is my win xp config wrong since i may not have right click pop-up on
selected 150 files, while on ther same time keyboard shortcuts work as
expected? gui copy of small number of files still works with mouse as
expected.

You don't want to shift-right-click to do this. You want to select the
first file in the series by left-clicking on it. Then hold down the
shift key and select the last file in the series by *left*-clicking on
it. This will select all of them you want. *Now* you'll be able to
right-click on any of the selected files and get the Copy/Move/etc.
context menu. Same thing for using Ctrl instead of Shift when you want
to copy multiples items not in sequence.

Malke

 

[Malke]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^----> type, had to be
"shift-leftclick"

You don't want to shift-right-click to do this. You want to select
the first file in the series by left-clicking on it. Then hold down
the shift key and select the last file in the series by
*left*-clicking on it. This will select all of them you want. *Now*
you'll be able to right-click on any of the selected files and get
the Copy/Move/etc.

sorry, i made type [see above].
of course that obtained range by leftclicking first and
shift-leftclicking last to have selected range.

but still positive not to be able to bring up context menu after
rightclicking selection, few seconds shown hourglass, and then return
to regular pointer.

also, this behaviour not on all computers, is there something i may do
to correct such a behaviour? this one [faulty] is a notebook came with
xp pro preinstalled.

Look in Event Viewer for clues as to what is happening.
Start>Run>eventvwr.msc [enter]

Check for faulty right-click context menu entries put there by third
party software. The easy way to do this is with the free ShellExView:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

How large are these files (roughly)? IOW, are you trying to copy 150
files that are 100MB each?

Did this function ever work correctly? If so, what changed between the
time things worked and the time they didn't?

Malke

 

[sali]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^----> type, had to be "shift-leftclick"

You don't want to shift-right-click to do this. You want to select the
first file in the series by left-clicking on it. Then hold down the
shift key and select the last file in the series by *left*-clicking on
it. This will select all of them you want. *Now* you'll be able to
right-click on any of the selected files and get the Copy/Move/etc.

sorry, i made type [see above].
of course that obtained range by leftclicking first and shift-leftclicking
last to have selected range.

but still positive not to be able to bring up context menu after
rightclicking selection, few seconds shown hourglass, and then return to
regular pointer.

also, this behaviour not on all computers, is there something i may do to
correct such a behaviour? this one [faulty] is a notebook came with xp pro
preinstalled.

thnx

 

[sali]

sali wrote:

xp, having folder with 150 text files, displayed in win explorer
right pane. wanting to copy them all.
select first, shift-rightclick last to select whole range. but when

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^----> type, had to be
"shift-leftclick"

right-clicking on selection to make pop-up for copy, nothing
happens.

You don't want to shift-right-click to do this. You want to select
the first file in the series by left-clicking on it. Then hold down
the shift key and select the last file in the series by
*left*-clicking on it. This will select all of them you want. *Now*
you'll be able to right-click on any of the selected files and get
the Copy/Move/etc.

sorry, i made type [see above].
of course that obtained range by leftclicking first and
shift-leftclicking last to have selected range.

but still positive not to be able to bring up context menu after
rightclicking selection, few seconds shown hourglass, and then return
to regular pointer.

also, this behaviour not on all computers, is there something i may do
to correct such a behaviour? this one [faulty] is a notebook came with
xp pro preinstalled.

Look in Event Viewer for clues as to what is happening.
Start>Run>eventvwr.msc [enter]

Check for faulty right-click context menu entries put there by third
party software. The easy way to do this is with the free ShellExView:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

How large are these files (roughly)? IOW, are you trying to copy 150
files that are 100MB each?

Did this function ever work correctly? If so, what changed between the
time things worked and the time they didn't?

there is no items in event viewer with the timestamp close to time when i
tried to bring up rightclick context menu.
these 150 files are tiny txt files [pure text], just few kb each

i'd succeeded to narrow the problem:
it happens [not bringing up rightclick context menu] when have focus on
shared folder on w2k server.
user [i boot up my workstation to] initialy has no access to this shared
folder, so i have to supply valid domanin\username & passwd when browsing
folders through windows explorer.
but at the same time [same shared network folder] i am able to bring up
rightclick menu on *fewer* selected files

up to [including] 138 files are ok, 139 [and more] selected fails on
bringing up rightclick context menu!

files names are rather long, 30 chars, maybe some buffer gets overflowed and
confused when trying to swap out to foreign network drive?
at the same time, there is *no* problem when working with same file set
previously [with cmd prompt] copied to local folder.

since i may copy fileset part-by-part, or completely from cmd prompt, this
is not a *hard* problem, but more of curriosity, to better understand xp
behaviour.

any idea/test i may try to isolate the source of problem? or is the real
limitation working with xp & foreign domain w2k?

thnx

 

[Malke]

there is no items in event viewer with the timestamp close to time
when i tried to bring up rightclick context menu.
these 150 files are tiny txt files [pure text], just few kb each

i'd succeeded to narrow the problem:
it happens [not bringing up rightclick context menu] when have focus
on shared folder on w2k server.
user [i boot up my workstation to] initialy has no access to this
shared folder, so i have to supply valid domanin\username & passwd
when browsing folders through windows explorer.
but at the same time [same shared network folder] i am able to bring
up rightclick menu on *fewer* selected files

up to [including] 138 files are ok, 139 [and more] selected fails on
bringing up rightclick context menu!

files names are rather long, 30 chars, maybe some buffer gets
overflowed and confused when trying to swap out to foreign network
drive? at the same time, there is *no* problem when working with same
file set previously [with cmd prompt] copied to local folder.

since i may copy fileset part-by-part, or completely from cmd prompt,
this is not a *hard* problem, but more of curriosity, to better
understand xp behaviour.

any idea/test i may try to isolate the source of problem? or is the
real limitation working with xp & foreign domain w2k?

There is no limitation in copying files from a domain if the
workstation's user has been authenticated on the domain. Without
looking at the setup in person, it's hard to say what exactly is going
on but I'd suspect incorrect permissions on some of the files or even a
hardware problem. It sounds like the workstation is losing contact with
the server. Perhaps looking in the *server's* Event Viewer will give an
idea of what is failing.

Malke

 

[sali]

there is no items in event viewer with the timestamp close to time
when i tried to bring up rightclick context menu.
these 150 files are tiny txt files [pure text], just few kb each

i'd succeeded to narrow the problem:
it happens [not bringing up rightclick context menu] when have focus
on shared folder on w2k server.

There is no limitation in copying files from a domain if the
workstation's user has been authenticated on the domain. Without
looking at the setup in person, it's hard to say what exactly is going
on but I'd suspect incorrect permissions on some of the files or even a
hardware problem. It sounds like the workstation is losing contact with
the server. Perhaps looking in the *server's* Event Viewer will give an
idea of what is failing.

thnx on your atention.
problem appears to be quite complex, involving server and network activities
as well ...

just to mention [as the last info about this topic] that when the same
network folder is mapped as a drive [letter], on the same selected number of
files, rightclick context menu also appears almost immidiately [like it was
local folder]
and looking on taskmngr's network throughoutput diagram, each case:
selection with mapped drive, selection with full path and unsuccessfull
selection have different footprint.

 

[Malke]

there is no items in event viewer with the timestamp close to time
when i tried to bring up rightclick context menu.
these 150 files are tiny txt files [pure text], just few kb each

i'd succeeded to narrow the problem:
it happens [not bringing up rightclick context menu] when have focus
on shared folder on w2k server.

There is no limitation in copying files from a domain if the
workstation's user has been authenticated on the domain. Without
looking at the setup in person, it's hard to say what exactly is
going on but I'd suspect incorrect permissions on some of the files
or even a hardware problem. It sounds like the workstation is losing
contact with the server. Perhaps looking in the *server's* Event
Viewer will give an idea of what is failing.

thnx on your atention.
problem appears to be quite complex, involving server and network
activities as well ...

just to mention [as the last info about this topic] that when the same
network folder is mapped as a drive [letter], on the same selected
number of files, rightclick context menu also appears almost
immidiately [like it was local folder]
and looking on taskmngr's network throughoutput diagram, each case:
selection with mapped drive, selection with full path and
unsuccessfull selection have different footprint.

Well, happy hunting. Maybe someone else can tell what's wrong from your
description but I'm afraid I can't. Good luck and if you figure out the
solution, it would be great if you would post it for the archives.

Malke