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Need help copying files and folders to a thumb drive
I am running XP SP3 and in the past I have been able to copy my
family genealogy files to a thumb drive. Today I wanted to update the files and folders - I first deleted all the old files on the thumb drive and then proceeded to copy the updated folders and files to the thumb drive. Some folders and files copied but other would not - I got a pop up window that said "Error Copying File or Folder" - cannot copy file. I don't know what has changed since the last update, but I proviously had no problem copying these files and folders? Can SKS assist with this problem? TIA Mary |
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Need help copying files and folders to a thumb drive
On 11/13/2013 10:19 AM, ECLiPSE 2002 wrote:
I am running XP SP3 and in the past I have been able to copy my family genealogy files to a thumb drive. Today I wanted to update the files and folders - I first deleted all the old files on the thumb drive and then proceeded to copy the updated folders and files to the thumb drive. Some folders and files copied but other would not - I got a pop up window that said "Error Copying File or Folder" - cannot copy file. I don't know what has changed since the last update, but I proviously had no problem copying these files and folders? Can SKS assist with this problem? TIA Mary Thumb drives can only be written to about 5,000 to 10,000 times. Once this limit has been reached, you can't write to them anymore. I don't know, maybe that is what you are up against. I have many of them myself and some over 10 years and none has ever quit on me yet. But I generally don't write to them a lot. I know one guy who wears them out once every two months. Although he writes to them constantly. You could reduce the amount of writing in your case by using something like Syncback. As it will only write the files that has changed and leave the rest alone. Although another thing that can kill a thumb drive is static electricity. There is tons of it at my place during the winter months. As I have to touch the screw on the wall plate for the light switch to ground myself before I go near my machines. I never blown anything here except one digital watch that I was wearing when I touched the light switch wall plate. And the display went blank. Good thing it was a very cheap watch, so I wasn't out a lot of money. SyncBack Free - freeware version http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/ -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12 Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8 Pro w/Media Center |
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Need help copying files and folders to a thumb drive
On 11/13/2013 10:19 AM, ECLiPSE 2002 wrote:
I am running XP SP3 and in the past I have been able to copy my family genealogy files to a thumb drive. Today I wanted to update the files and folders - I first deleted all the old files on the thumb drive and then proceeded to copy the updated folders and files to the thumb drive. Some folders and files copied but other would not - I got a pop up window that said "Error Copying File or Folder" - cannot copy file. I don't know what has changed since the last update, but I proviously had no problem copying these files and folders? Can SKS assist with this problem? TIA Mary If the file is large (over 4 gig) the drive will have to be formatted as NTFS rather than fat32 http://lifehacker.com/5195783/format...-in-windows-xp |
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Need help copying files and folders to a thumb drive
Thanks to Bill and Philo for the responses. I know the thumb drive has only been used a dozen times and the size of the files to be copied are less than 100 MB. What has me perplexed is of all the files and folders I tried to copy to the thumb drive only on folder and its contents could not be copied? I will try copying all the folders and files again using a different thumb drive and see what the outcome is. Mary On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:19:05 -0500, ECLiPSE 2002 wrote: I am running XP SP3 and in the past I have been able to copy my family genealogy files to a thumb drive. Today I wanted to update the files and folders - I first deleted all the old files on the thumb drive and then proceeded to copy the updated folders and files to the thumb drive. Some folders and files copied but other would not - I got a pop up window that said "Error Copying File or Folder" - cannot copy file. I don't know what has changed since the last update, but I proviously had no problem copying these files and folders? Can SKS assist with this problem? TIA Mary |
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Need help copying files and folders to a thumb drive
"ECLiPSE 2002" wrote in message
Thanks to Bill and Philo for the responses. I know the thumb drive has only been used a dozen times and the size of the files to be copied are less than 100 MB. What has me perplexed is of all the files and folders I tried to copy to the thumb drive only on folder and its contents could not be copied? I will try copying all the folders and files again using a different thumb drive and see what the outcome is. Is that one folder deep in a directory tree? If so, you might try moving it elsewhere to simplify the path. -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Taxes out of hand? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net |
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Need help copying files and folders to a thumb drive
Thanks for your suggestion dadiOH, I was able to copy the files within the folder individually to the thumb and then create a folder for them. Odd that the folder could not be copied as all the others were? Mary On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:30:18 -0500, "dadiOH" wrote: "ECLiPSE 2002" wrote in message Thanks to Bill and Philo for the responses. I know the thumb drive has only been used a dozen times and the size of the files to be copied are less than 100 MB. What has me perplexed is of all the files and folders I tried to copy to the thumb drive only on folder and its contents could not be copied? I will try copying all the folders and files again using a different thumb drive and see what the outcome is. Is that one folder deep in a directory tree? If so, you might try moving it elsewhere to simplify the path. |
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