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that doesn't mean that you can't take the good things that Unstoppable Copier has going for it and try to duplicate it in your software.
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.
 
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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.
 
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.
I'm not really a big fan of this idea but this definitely sounds like a possible workaround
 
@fabs That would work too! I just want to make sure that all files get copied over. If it's a little messy in the end I can handle it so long as I don't have to manually go through each individual file and manually transfer it over.
 
@fabs That would work too! I just want to make sure that all files get copied over. If it's a little messy in the end I can handle it so long as I don't have to manually go through each individual file and manually transfer it over.
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.
This is way better ethically
 
I haven't experienced the problem(s) @sapphirescales is reporting. 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.
 
I haven't experienced the problem(s) @sapphirescales is reporting. 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.
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.
 
I haven't experienced the problem(s) @sapphirescales is reporting. 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.
This. If the user is using one drive. It is backing up Documents, Pictures, and Desktop items. So usually ignore errors in those folders.
 
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.
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.

My main point is that I don't really remember any files being skipped in my usage.
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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?
 
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?
 
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
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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