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[sapphirescales]

I can twist the thing by adding support for it but end user (you!) will have to download and put it into Fab's folder so it can use it to retry failed files.

That works. I don't mind putting the .exe file in the folder so Fabs can use it. I can't wait to see how you implement this!

Do have occasional glitches pulling OneDrive content but I've since started just skipping that. Maybe it's because I'm usually running it from the live OS vs offline.

So usually ignore errors in those folders.

I don't ever back up OneDrive content. I wish those were the files I had problems with because skipping those would be a simple fix.

 

[fabs]

That works. I don't mind putting the .exe file in the folder so Fabs can use it. I can't wait to see how you implement this!

I see that this way: if there are failed files AND it detects unstoppable copier exe file, then it will list the folders that contain files marked as failed. Unstoppable copier will be started in batch mode and will pop up and start it's task. Indeed, I'll use the option that will skip already existing files in target directory to avoid waste of time. I think I should also add a final control when it will close after copy so if there are still failed files, they would be really uncopiable.

 

[sapphirescales]

I'll use the option that will skip already existing files in target directory to avoid waste of time.

Just so I understand here, you're only going to pass off the files that failed onto Unstoppable Copier, right? If you hand over the entire list of files to Unstoppable Copier and just tell it to skip files that already exist, it might take a few extra hours to go through them all if there's a ton of files.

 

[fabs]

Just so I understand here, you're only going to pass off the files that failed onto Unstoppable Copier, right? If you hand over the entire list of files to Unstoppable Copier and just tell it to skip files that already exist, it might take a few extra hours to go through them all if there's a ton of files.

Since it only accepts folders, I don't really have other choice. Anyway, that will take less than doing all of this manually right?

 

[sapphirescales]

Since it only accepts folders, I don't really have other choice.

So I'll use an example. Let's say the following file failed to transfer for some reason:

C:\Users\CrazyDude\Documents\Taxes\2021\TaxReturn.pdf

Would you simply pass the 2021 folder on to Unstoppable Copier or are you forced to do the entire Documents or User folder?

 

[sapphirescales]

So I'll use an example. Let's say the following file failed to transfer for some reason:

C:\Users\CrazyDude\Documents\Taxes\2021\TaxReturn.pdf

Would you simply pass the 2021 folder on to Unstoppable Copier or are you forced to do the entire Documents or User folder?

And what if these two files failed for some reason?:

C:\Users\CrazyDude\Documents\Taxes\2021\TaxReturn.pdf
C:\Users\CrazyDude\Documents\Resume.docx

Would you then pass on the entire Documents folder since that's the common denominator between the two or do you run a separate folder batch for each file that fails?

 

[fabs]

So I'll use an example. Let's say the following file failed to transfer for some reason:

C:\Users\CrazyDude\Documents\Taxes\2021\TaxReturn.pdf

Would you simply pass the 2021 folder on to Unstoppable Copier or are you forced to do the entire Documents or User folder?

I would pass the C:\Users\CrazyDude\Documents\Taxes\2021 in this case

 

[fabs]

And what if these two files failed for some reason?:

C:\Users\CrazyDude\Documents\Taxes\2021\TaxReturn.pdf
C:\Users\CrazyDude\Documents\Resume.docx

Would you then pass on the entire Documents folder since that's the common denominator between the two or do you run a separate folder batch for each file that fails?

Here, that would be C:\Users\CrazyDude\Documents only.

Another possibility that could save some time : I could also do something like passing "C:\Users\CrazyDude\Documents" AND "C:\Users\CrazyDude\Documents\Taxes\2021" BUT I would use an option that will not look inside sub folders.

 

[HCHTech]

I never run Fabs on an active operating system. I always either extract the drive or run it from a portable version of Windows 10 on an external SSD.

I wonder if this practice somehow increases the odds of permissions problems or something. We use Fabs every day, but don't use this methodology - We either run it live on the system we are backing up, or we run it from a Windows bench machine which has the customer's drive in a hot-swap bay. While there are occasional copy failures, I would say they are rare.

 

[Diggs]

I never run Fabs on an active operating system.

So what happens when bitlocker is turned on?

 

[fabs]

So what happens when bitlocker is turned on?

I guess he has digital password so he can unlock it and copy data

 

[Diggs]

I guess he has digital password so he can unlock it and copy data

So does that have to be done from a system with bitlocker (TPM) capable or enabled? Can an old (say gen 4) system do that?

 

[fincoder]

I get occasional copy failures, not in large numbers (except OneDrive online files).

My suggestion is that @fabs could start to address this by improving the errors reported when file copy fails. Usually I get the message "copied file size doesn't match the original" or similar, which doesn't identify the issue. Maybe some better handling of copy failure reporting would help us figure out why the copy fails sometimes.

If there are lots of copy failures within a set of files, maybe that could be detected and a prompt asking whether to continue or not.

For OneDrive files that are online only, there might be a way to confirm from the file properties and simply skip them, and perhaps a single warning that "<n> files cannot be copied (online only)" but not adding them to error count.

 

[Diggs]

If there are lots of copy failures within a set of files,

I had that today when trying to copy Edge files with FABs. Couldn't copy any of them. I had to manually kill the backup.

 

[fabs]

So does that have to be done from a system with bitlocker (TPM) capable or enabled? Can an old (say gen 4) system do that?

I think that windows can unlock bitlocker drives on any system as soon as bitlocker digital password is provided.

 

[Porthos]

I had that today when trying to copy Edge files with FABs

What version of Fabs and were you on a live install. My older version had no errors.

 

[fabs]

What version of Fabs and were you on a live install. My older version had no errors.
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He had this while running a portable win10 install on a USB SSD, so errors came from (I guess) lack of permissions on source drive

 

[Porthos]

He had this while running a portable win10 install on a USB SSD, so errors came from (I guess) lack of permissions on source drive

Since Chromium-based browser data is encrypted?

 

[fabs]

Since Chromium-based browser data is encrypted?

I don't know. I think about NTFS permissions, not encryption

 

[Diggs]

What version of Fabs and were you on a live install. My older version had no errors.

I'm running 7.8.4.4908 and I didn't save the log from the when Edge failed as I bailed on the backup and unchecked Edge backups on the next try. There's two users on the machine. Both have passwords or PINs. Was not during install. Just a standard boot with fingerprint login.