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It's about user interface design. How many options do you want in a dialog. For unusual tasks use xcopy which can (if you tell it too) ignore errors. The file copy functions can actually continue on error if a program tells it too but explorer doen't want to display 50 options to every user for every file copy.
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"john" <john@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EEA6029B-2258-4133-A423-6E527988FFB0@microsoft.com...
> yes part of that peticular file may or may not be corrupt, or the archive bit
> may have changed during the copy, but i am trying to put a 17 rom map program
> on the hard drive so i won't have to keep changing disks, and i am backing up
> some hard drives but i don't want to use a back up compress program, i just
> want to copy all the contents of a drive to a main disk. i get error messages
> after about 3 gigs, and then the copy aborts, and it is actually failing on
> files that won't hurt all that much even if they are corrupt. it seems a few
> years ago someone posted this for one of the original windows operating
> systems, i thought they may have found a fix by the time they got to xp pro.
> i am sure everyone runs into this same problem sooner or later, error should
> give you the option to stop or continue, or continue to copy and just give a
> report at the end, real irritating to set up some long term sequence like
> defrag, and come back an hour later only to find that some unimportant notice
> popped up, and you had to answer, before the process would continue. i think
> the programers do some of these things, just for thier own humor.
>
> "Eric Renken" wrote:
>
>> Even if you could turn it off the data would most likely be useless. That
>> is what the error is telling you.
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>> Eric Renken
>> Microsoft Associate Expert.
>> Expert Zone
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>> "john" <john@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:15DBF9DE-225E-4707-AB0B-8C8C7E501D92@microsoft.com...
>> > yes, but how to turn it off
>> >
>> > "Anando [MS-MVP]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi John,
>> >>
>> >> If you are trying to copy files form a CD/DVD, chances are that the media
>> >> is scratched or the CD/DVD was not burnt
>> >> properly. This is usually the error message that shows up.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> Anando
>> >> Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User
>> >>
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
>> >>
http://aspnet2.com/mvp.ashx?AnandoChatterjee
>> >>
>> >> Folder customizations
>> >>
http://newdelhi.sancharnet.in/minku
>> >>
>> >> Protect your PC!
>> >>
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "john" <john@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:3522D90B-CFA4-4413-B40A-6F83BE3C8CFB@microsoft.com...
>> >> > how do i turn off the redundancy check in xp pro. i keep getting
>> >> > redundancy
>> >> > check error message and then copy stops
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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