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    Can't open files copied from Windows 10 to 11. Quickie solution please!

    I recently copied files from Windows 10 laptop to portable HD using robocopy with switches /copyall /dcopy:dat /e in CMD. Then using same commands copied them into new Windows11 PC. It took some heavy duty poking around to figure out where the few files on the new PC were located for our...
  2. Releasing Windows 10 Build 19044.1499 to Release Preview Channel

    Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Build 19044.1499 (21H2) (KB5009596) to the Release Preview Channel for those Insiders who are on Windows 10. This update includes the following improvements: We fixed an issue in Microsoft UI Automation that might cause Microsoft Outlook to stop...
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    GoogleDriveBackUpSync=>Make Status Window and Status Bar floating around on the Desktop all time freely. Any Way to export the rea-time sync sta

    How to make GoogleDriveBackUpSync Status Window and Status Bar floating around on the Desktop all time freely. Any Way to export the rea-time sync status to an external display windows, s o as to monitor Sync Progress all time?!? 1* GoogleDriveBackUpSync Status Window and Status Bar should be...
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    Windows 10 Backing up a crashed system from the recovery console (or what10 calls the command line)

    I have a system that refuses to boot to Windows 10 Professional (64-bit), and I think I need to do a reinstall. The advanced boot options is available, but it will not go into safe mode. I can however get the command line, and it recognizes both robocopy and xcopy. Assume that C is the hard...
  5. Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19043.844 (21H1)

    Hello Windows Insiders, today we are announcing Windows 10 version 21H1 as the next feature update for Windows 10. As part of today’s announcement, we’re also releasing 21H1 Build 19043.844 (KB4601382) to the Beta Channel. We are releasing this build to the Beta Channel via our “seeker”...
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    Windows 10 Robocopy kopiert bei /XD nur das angegebene Hauptverzeichnis

    Hallo Gemeinde! Beim Backup mit Robocopy mit der Befehlszeile net use x: \\backup-pc\d\xxxx /user:admin xxxx robocopy c: x:\c /R:1 /w:1 /Mir /xj /XD "c:\Windows" "c:\$Recycle.bin" wird nur das Hauptverzeichnis "Windows" ausgeschlossen. Die Unterverzeichnisse werden jedoch kopiert. Alle weiteren...
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    Windows 10 Certain files are not copied from PC to NAS, alleged use by other program

    After replacement of a harddisk in my NAS I want to shovel back about 1 TB files from my PC win10 64 bit to it. Tried it first with robocopy. File transfers ended when some mp4, some tif files were to be copied. Error message - Other app using them. Resource monitor showed no handles to these...
  8. Windows 10 Windows 10 1809 Backup Help needed

    Hi, I was using File History before the 1809 update and saw it was no longer working. I do not want an image- just file and folder backups. Here are the steps I have done Removed old File History backup and restarted- same issue. Further investigation showed that I was hitting MAX PATH 256...
  9. Windows 10 How To: Relocate User Profiles to Different Drive/Partition (SSD Friendly)

    For those of you who have SSDs, limited space, or just want to keep your user data on another drive or partition, I wanted to share the results of some experimentation as a followup to my own question on this subject. I know that there is another method of relocating the User Profiles to...
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    Windows 7 Different "Date" on Sim Card than on Hard Drive

    Premium 64-bit Link Removed Different "Date" on Sim Card than on Hard Drive I am trying to copyLink Removed some photos (jpg's) from my hard drive to a sim card for display in digital frame. In the past (before Win 7), the date shown in Explorer for a photo on the hard drive was the same...
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    Windows 7 Restoring User Profile

    So, I got a new, larger SSD to put windows on. I did a custom install. During the installation I pressed shif-F10 to open cmd then used robocopy /copyall /mir /E /XJ C:\Users D:\Users rmdir /S /Q C:\Users mklink /J C:\Users D:\Users I did the same with Program Files, Program Files (x86)...
  12. Robocopy.exe utility incorrectly skips some files during the file copy or backup process in Windows

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    Windows 7 bottomless pit of folders Please help!!!

    Hi everyone, I currently have a problem with what appears to be recurring folders. I have the main folder which then shows a folder inside that, then another inside that, then another inside that until I come to about 7-8 folders. opening any of these and the you end up opening one folder...
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    Windows 7 bottomless pit of folders Please help!!!

    Hi everyone, I currently have a problem with what appears to be recurring folders. I have the main folder which then shows a folder inside that, then another inside that, then another inside that until I come to about 7-8 folders. opening any of these and the you end up opening one folder...
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    Windows 7 WIN7 Image created with imagex deploy with WDS??

    First post here and need some help. I have an image on bootable media (DVD). The image spans 3 dvds broken down into SWM files. I have been able to combine the SWM's with imagex into 1 large wim. In viewing the contents the WIM contains 2 images (image 1 & image 2). During the initial image...
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    Windows 7 XP: Physical to Virtual Machine & Share Boot Drive w Host? Best way?

    XP: Physical to Virtual & Share Boot Drive w Host? Disk2VHD vs VMWare P2V? XP: Physical to Virtual & Share Drive w Host? Disk2VHD vs VMWare P2V? Physical-to-Virtual - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia My Thinkpad X61T with recent 8GB DDR2 Upgrade: I have an XP Pro 3 instance on a HDD able...
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    Windows 7 Robocopy / view backed up files on external drive

    Started using robocopy to do my backups. In my command lines, i can specify directories on a external drive to backup to.Some directories show up and i see everything. My most important directory " my documents" DOESNT SHOW UP. I have confirmed a backup is occuring, via log file and properties...
  18. Significantly slower directory tree replication performance when you use the Robocopy command in Win

    Fixes an issue in which the performance of directory tree replication is significantly slower when you use the Robocopy command on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...
  19. Robocopy.exe utility incorrectly skips some files during the file copy or backup process in Windows

    Fixes an issue in which the Robocopy.exe utility incorrectly skips some files during the file copy or backup process. This issue occurs when the file names contain East Asian characters in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. More...
  20. Return codes that are used by the Robocopy utility in Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2

    Discusses the return codes that are used by the Robocopy utility in Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...