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Preserving Quick Access Pins and Libraries with Robocopy
So I've had an external drive that I kept plugged into my laptop that later started having connection issues. I decided to use Robocopy to transfer the files over to a new drive with (effectively) the ...
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How to copy files in File Explorer while preserving all Metadata attributes: Including Last Accessed Date, Modified Date, etc
I have scoured superuser for an answer, and have found similar questions, but none of them talk about preserving the Last Accessed Date. I have already wanted to archive all the last accessed dates on ...
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Robocopy from network drive doesn't skip duplicates
This is my robocopy line:
robocopy "\\network\Document\Migration" D:\Migration /S
As described here robocopy should skip files that have the same size, date and name.
First copy from ...
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How can I merge multiple folders and files to a new single folder?
I have a folder named SCENERY on drive F (F:\SCENERY). It contains several folders: A, B, C... etc. I would like to merge the contents of A, B, C... etc to another folder on drive F named BASEFILES (F:...
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Why does Windows Explorer change the 'Folder Modify Time' when first accessing a folder after a robocopy?
I am attempting to use Robocopy to mirror a directory structure (/e) and keep created/modified/accessed times. This should be fairly simple with '/copy:DAT /dcopy:DAT' and appears to preserve the ...
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A directory with same name already exists in this location
I am trying to create a folder with name, let's say, phantomdir but I am getting a dialogue that says, translated, "A directory with same name 'phantomdir' already exists in this location. Do you ...
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Can you move a directory while data is being copied to it
I have a large set of data that is being copied to a directory on a server, around 2 tb. I would like to start moving this data(Ctrl-X) from server A to server B to save time and space on server A. ...
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Folder not visible in Explorer or from cmd after RoboCopy
I use RoboCopy to do a basic backup of one of my (non-OS) HDD's:
robocopy D:\ X:\Backup\D /MIR /XD D:\ExcludeMe
The destination directory (X:\Backup\D) had not been created before execution.
After ...
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Unable to delete deep folder structure
I am unable to remove a very deep directory tree. When I try to delete it normally, it just stays at 0% and nothing happens.
I have tried using the robocopy method with /purge, which ran for over 1 ...
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Window's Explorer not displaying actual filepath
My company uses Robocopy to backup our systems, and in the backup folders, the shown names are not correct.
What is expected, is "This PC > Drive > backup > Store > SYSTEMNAME". What is shown in the ...
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What happens when you use Robocopy between two remote computers on your WAN?
Some details: I have a local server at one of the branches of the company I work for that has some pretty bad internet. I am using Robocopy to move some big files to the server once then using it ...
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Windows 7 thinks every folder is shared
I have a hard drive that I'm moving thousands of folders off, which I would do either using robocopy /mov or windows explorer cut and paste. Robocopy won't move the folders, and explorer prompts me ...
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Script to quit program prior to Robocopy
I'm setting up a backup script for a client that will be scheduled to run once a month to backup his 200GB iTunes directory to his NAS. It's compiled using some defined parameters and ROBOCOPY %...
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