File Copying problems using Explorer

[Modex]

Hi All

I don’t know if anyone has come across this before but I have this problem when copying loads of files.

Basically I Back up my Entire Drive (80 Gig) to another completely formatted Drive at least once a month. As you can imagine there are one or two files to be copied.

Normally I would set this going before going to bed and then in the morning all will be done.

Unfortunately Not So.

On nearly every occasion I do this, I get a message at some stage in the copy along the lines of

Example “File chessma~1 already exists”. (and the only option is to quit the copy)

I find it quite remarkable as the drive was a formatted blank disk.

Now for my 2 cents, I would think that windows is holding files to be copied information in a cache, still as 8.3 formatted files and if it encounters a file with a similar name and because of the 8.3 format thinks its got a duplicate file.

As, you can imagine, it makes it real difficult to back up my drives using windows with any reliability.

So my question is, has anybody else come across this problem, and further more does anyone have a solution.

Many thanks

ModeX

PS the OS I’m using is Win2000Pro (however it used to happen in Win98)

 

[GlenJohnson]

Have you tried searching the formatted hard drive from dos for the file before copying? Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com


"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."
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[richgill]

How are you backing up the disk?

 

[Shijas]

HI There,

In your case i beleave that use some utility like Ghost to take a mirror image of your hard disk, other wise you will face problems with open file or existing file.

 

[dankelt]

ModeX, whenever I want to do a quick copy of multiple files, I use xcopy. You could just create a little batch file to do your backup. For example:

@ECHO OFF
xcopy /C /H /Y /E C:\*.* D:IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO ERROR
:SUCCESS
ECHO Backup was successful
GOTO END
:ERROR
ECHO Backup Failed
GOTO END
:END
PAUSE

You could also just use the MS Backup that is inculded with Win2000.

Laters,
Dan