[AccessD] Constant copy interruptions

Well, I tried.  It installed just fine.  F1 gives "no help found".

I set up a copy and the status says "copy complete", but nothing moved.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 11/1/2010 2:01 PM, Heenan, Lambert wrote:
> Tried RichCopy yet?
>
> http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/Microsoft-RichCopy.shtml
>
> Lambert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 12:39 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Constant copy interruptions
>
>   >  He he, afraid of the command line he is!
>
> No, tired of the command line he is.  I was using the CPM command line in 1982.  In 2010, TWENTY EIGHT YEARS later people are still suggesting the command line.  How sad is that?
>
> I have a machine which is 1000 times the clock speed, and 10,000 times the memory and 100,000 times the disk storage, a virtual super computer next to my 1982 CPM machine and Gustav is suggesting the command line.
>
> Sigh!
>
> Excuse me but I haven't got time for this conversation, I have to go hitch the ox to the ox cart to go to the village miller now to get some flour to bake my bread.
>
> ;)
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> On 11/1/2010 9:00 AM, Gustav Brock wrote:
>> Hi John
>>
>> He he, afraid of the command line he is!
>> Use tools like xcopy or - if you are keen about the delicate file attributes - robocopy:
>>
>> http://www.sqlmag.com/article/sql-server/tool-tip-the-awesomeness-of-r
>> obocopy.aspx
>>
>> /gustav
>>
>>
>>>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 01-11-2010 13:41>>>
>> having created my UnRaid NAS, I am now moving stuff that I used to
>> store on my expensive server off to the NAS.  The problem is that it
>> is tens or even hundreds of gigabytes of files, and windows issues a
>> constant stream of "are you sure" and "if you move this" and "there are properties that can't copy" etc.
>>
>> Moving a hundred gigabytes of files takes tens of hours, so I try to
>> start it at night, only to come back in the morning to find that it only moved a few gigs before stopping to ask "are you sure".
>>
>> "Annoying" doesn't even come close to describing it.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to tell Windows Explorer to stop asking and just move what I ask it to move?
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