Yes it was. I don't remember the exact number of files and I didn't save the log file but I know it was in the hundreds. That's why I just said "screw it" and ran Unstoppable Copier instead of manually grabbing the failed files like I usually do.
The problem with this is that Unstoppable Copier is not Open-source so I can't know how it works under the hood. It's like the old reliable ford has a soldered hood so I can't see what's hiding under. So, I've sent a message to him using his contact form. I hope he will share some tips with me.
Oh that would be great! I don't know him personally but I've made many donations over the years hoping he'd keep up with his software. That's the problem with donationware though. These projects never get proper funding to sustain themselves. This is why I was so happy that you changed to a yearly model. I HATE SaaS but so long as you can keep the software afterwards and aren't forced to pay every year unless you want the new features, I'm completely fine with it. Selling software one time with free updates forever is unsustainable.
If I get no response or if he refuses, then I don't see anything that forbids me to integrate it into Fab's like I did with Nirsoft. This way, I could list all folders that contain failed files and their destination folders as well. If I put them into some "failedfiles.ucb", then I could make Fab's call Unstoppable Copier, load that .ucb file so it will take care of them just after Fab's has done what it could do by itself.
That would be an automated process at the end of Fab's job. Thinking about it, i just can't distribute unstoppable copier just like that if I don't have Roadkil's agreement for that. 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.
Onedrive is a particular thing as it enables files on demand by default. Most if the time, files are not really there but they're in the cloud and the only user user that can access them is their owner. Software like unstoppable copier cannot do anything against this too.
This. If the user is using one drive. It is backing up Documents, Pictures, and Desktop items. So usually ignore errors in those folders.
Yes, I understand all that and don't think of it as a flaw in Fabs. As I said I just skip over that now usually.
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 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.
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.
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?
So I'll use an example. Let's say the following file failed to transfer for some reason:
And what if these two files failed for some reason?:
I would pass the C:\Users\CrazyDude\Documents\Taxes\2021 in this case
Here, that would be C:\Users\CrazyDude\Documents only.
