XYplorer Beta Club

Messing around with network connections in a mixed W7/XP network I screwed my PC. That's not a major problem since I keep a clone on a USB drive.

I decided to wipe the partitions I knew I'd done work on and copy over the live stuff before cloneing back to my live drive.

Any files/folders below System Volume Information weren't copied.

I selected Skip when told I needed to be the administrator to copy that folder.

Am I messing up or is it a bug?

System Volume Information is a protected folder. You can't access it even as admin, unless you use specific low-level software. It's not a bug, it's NTFS design. Btw, that folder doesn't contain useful data (well, it's something about file system integrity, but if I were you I wouldn't care).

I don't care about System Volume Information, and I know its protected, and I realised I explained badly

By below it I do not mean within it. eg there were 59 directories on the D: drive I copied to K: but only ended up with 50. All of the directories listed below (ie alphabetically following it) weren't copied.

You mean after you pressed the "Skip" button the operation was completely aborted? I cannot reproduce this here.

Just checked again and its definitely happening. Yesterday it was copying to a USB drive, today to the second HDD in my PC.

I've (hopefully) attached the directories (ctrl-P from XYPlorer) for the source and targets.

In the PC (Dell Vostro 1700 W7 64 bit) I have two HDDs , one SSD one spinning rust. The main one (SSD) is partitioned into C:, D:, E:, F: the other has a single partition.

What I did was open XYPlorer, navigate to D: over in the right hand pane pressed ctrl-A, ctrl-C, opened a second tab, navigated to Z:, created a new folder (Junk) opened it in the right hand pane and pressed ctrl-V. After about 12 minutes (its copying c11Gb) up came the prompt about skipping System Information Folder. I click skip and it skips the rest of the folders.

If I can do anything to resolve the problem please let me know.

I will make some tests tomorrow...

I tried to replicate the issue but did not see any "Skip" button at any stage. Could you please post a screenshot of the interface showing the "Skip" button and of your Custom Copy settings. Thanks.

Info as requested - I hope

Ha, this is a shell prompt! You are not even using "Custom Copy". Make a tick at "Use Custom Copy" and we meet again.

First my appologies for not making clear it was a system prompt. I just never thought someone would think it could be anything else

By using custom copy it works properly so I have a work round but shouldn't it do the same when not using custom copy?

My apologies too, I did not even know that the shell has a skip button. I never use the shell for copy jobs.

roy.lambert wrote:By using custom copy it works properly so I have a work round but shouldn't it do the same when not using custom copy?

No. I wrote custom copy exactly because the shell lacks in many ways.

OK - thanks