What about doing it from the command line. Say something line
From the run command type "cmd" press enter "xcopy drive:\dirname drive:\dirname /d /I /s" and press enter. This will copy all of the files and directories from the source to the target but skip any files that are newer. HTH
-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:19 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Windows 7 Copy Oddity-Possibly seen in Vista as well? I am attempting to copy a data backup from a USB SATTA Caddy to a USB Caddy drive. Using Windows 7 and Windows Explorer the copy calculates the source size and targets free space then gives me a dialog with try Again and Cancel claiming there's not enough free space on the drive to perform the copy. I need to free up about 80GB or so on the target. There's no options for replace files whilst copying in this instance it seems. NB. The source is a few gig smaller than the target's overall directory and the targets volume has 146GB free. My next step was installed Windows Resource Kits Tools with the intention of using robocopy. The installer did warn me of known conflicts but I thought, push on and see. When i try and execute robocopy it generates a bunch of on-screen garbage and lands me back in the c:\program files\windows resource kits\tools directory. I don't want to delete the target because it has some newer files than the source. However, one way i could work round it is copy the target to the source, delete the target then copy the source to what was the target, it seems very long-winded and wil take probably an additional six hours because this is USB to USB, both powered and USB 2.0, but still will take a while. Any suggestions for an alternative? I could probably use rsync, but don't want to drag this out as I'd have to read-up on it's syntax as it's been a few years. Thanks, Barry. __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3957 (20090324) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins