Copied Folder does not have the same # of files as original

[ikaika1]

The office I work for has a jury-rigged networked drive on a workstation. Because the firm is growing the meager 20GB being shared between the user of the workstation and the network drive has finally gotten just too small to work with. All attempts to copy the files off the folder that has been mapped as a network drive results in about 200 files and .2GB not being copied to the destination. We don't know where the files are because the directory structure is pretty messy, and going through piece by piece isnt something we are very excited about. Hidden files and folders are turned on and the files were copied simply by selecting the folder, hitting copy, and pasting into a new hard drive. Can anyone think of a reason for this? Or maybe a piece of syncronization software that would point us in the right direction?

 

[boomdawg]

I'm sure there are better alternatives but you could use something like Fileback PC to copy the files over. When it's done you can view the report to seee which files (if any) it didn't copy. It'll give you the location and I believe the reason it couldn't copy them over.

 

[supagold]

Try using robocopy from the resource kit. It's like xcopy on super-steroids.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: ikaika1
The office I work for has a jury-rigged networked drive on a workstation. Because the firm is growing the meager 20GB being shared between the user of the workstation and the network drive has finally gotten just too small to work with. All attempts to copy the files off the folder that has been mapped as a network drive results in about 200 files and .2GB not being copied to the destination. We don't know where the files are because the directory structure is pretty messy, and going through piece by piece isnt something we are very excited about. Hidden files and folders are turned on and the files were copied simply by selecting the folder, hitting copy, and pasting into a new hard drive. Can anyone think of a reason for this? Or maybe a piece of syncronization software that would point us in the right direction?

Use FileSync, which will compare two directories and figure out what's missing or different.