Copy Folders tp other drive
I,m using Win XP Pro with updates and True Image 2015 build 6613. I know XP is old, but I can't afford to replace all the programs that I need for Win 10.
I have a large file (82 gigs) I want to move to another disc, not a new disc. After many clicks and a few choice words, I finally found "files and folders"
I DO NOT want to clone my hard drive.
I DO NOT want to clone any disc.
I DO NOT want to partition a disc.
I DO NOT want to restore my disc.
I DO NOT want to sync my phone to my computer.
I DO NOT want to send my stuff to the clouds.
All I want to do is copy one folder from one drive to another drive.
When I finally found the right click, I started the copy and about 10 seconds later I got a pop up that said "found new hardware. I didn't install any new hardware. After the 4th or 5th try, I clicked on OK to see what drivers it wanted to install. It was searching for drivers for a "Shadow Copy". What is shadow copy and why is it trying to install it? I canceled the driver search and stopped the copy process, which hadn't started yet.
I finally gave up and dragged the folder to the new drive. It was a long process and I was hoping True Image would save me some time.
I played with it later and when I loaded True Image, the animation for the copy was still running - I click stop and it keeps running.
Why do these guys seem to think they know what I want to do better than I know what I want.
How can I get this monstacity to work the way my older more faithful True Image worked. I will not spend money for an upgrade that may be worse than this.
Lynn
Have to agree with Tuttle. Windows, right click copy and paste works nicely.
If the goal is to "synch" one folder with another you can use the build in robocopy tool of windows
robocopy source destinaion /MIR /R:0 W:0 such as
robocopy "C:\MySourceFolder" "D:MyDestinationFolder" /MIR /R:0 /W:0
will mirror C folder to D folder exactly as whatever is in C. If you want to append changes from C: to D: but keep older files on D: that are still there but removed from the source drive then use /E instead of /MIR such as
robocopy "C:\MySourceFolder" "D:MyDestinationFolder" /E /R:0 /W:0
Or if you need a GUI, just use something like allwaysynch which has a free version with some limitations but will probably do what you want.
My main reason for trying this was to see if it would be faster. I never did find out. I did just drag and drop the folder from one drive to the other and had no problem.
Since I bought and paid for the program, it was the first time I had tried it. I should have kept the old one.
Can someone tell me what this "shadow copy" is and why was why True Image was trying to find drivers for it. It was listed as found new hardware. There was no new hardware to install.
Never saw that before. And even after I clicked "stop" a half dozen times, it was still going through the motions of trying to copy.
Lynn, shadow copy is a Microsoft service that ATIH 2015 and later try to use in order to create a snapshot of system files that might otherwise may be locked by Windows programs or services etc.
I suspect that the issue here lays with your Windows XP OS which doesn't implement the Microsoft VSS in the way that is expected by ATIH 2015, and therefore Windows is trying to find device drivers for it (not Acronis).
If you do want to use ATIH 2015 on your XP system, then you need to ensure that you have got SP3 installed for XP as this is a requirement for ATIH as documented in KB document: 48302: Acronis True Image 2015: Supported Operating Systems
For the VSS issue, see post: https://forum.acronis.com/forum/45832#comment-346558 which describes how this can be disabled for a backup task so that Acronis defaults to using its own snapshot processes instead of VSS.
Lynn,
Are you synching, or backing up when this happens? If I remember correctly, sync in 2015 is through the cloud first and not direct from computer to computer - but that has changed in newer versions where you can synch directly from system to system. I dont' sue the sync feature though so am not much help there - would definitely be slower making a stop to the Cloud first though.
If this is a backup issue, I would also try disabling VSS for that paritcular task and letting it roll back to the TrueImage snapapi backup method (which was the main backup method in 2014 and earlier, and works just as good).
Lynn, a further comment / question - what type of file is this large 82GB one that you are wanting to transfer to another disk? Can you break it down into small sections, i.e. if it is a zip file of a group of folders and files, then copying the source data instead of the zip container would be easier when using ATIH as this will attempt to compress the source data and try to achieve around 20 - 30% compression, depending on the type of files included?
The other alternative is to use one of the free File/Folder Synchronisation tools that are available which can transfer the source data between locations (disks, systems etc) based on what changes have occurred.
Thanks guys for the help and suggestions. Bubbo, I was tring to copy a large folder (82 gig) from one drive to another. I tried Acronis strictly to see if it would be any faster than a straight copy. This was the first time I used this version, so I was a bit confused with all the new stuff.
Steve, I do have SP3 on this system. I would have to replace all programs on this system if I upgraded my operating system, and that would cost mucho money. It's used for a small business and would take lots of work.
I'm back in business and I learned some new stuff ths past few days. Thanks to all.
Lynn
Lynn, take a look at the free SyncFolders program at http://www.syncfolders.elementfx.com/ which will work with all versions of Windows from XP upwards - I use this on my own systems and once you have set up the source and target for your folder, this will just synchronise the changes that occur when you run it.