![]() ![]() RoboCopy may set the new directory to hidden, as it copies the system attribute of the root folder of the drive over to the new folder. When copying from the root directory of a drive to a folder (non-root directory on a different drive), this can happen. Has anyone else seen this? Or even better, does anyone know what I am doing wrong or how to solve this problem? It works the same on my WIndows XP machine and my Windows 7 Ultimate. I also took ownership of the files as Administrator. ![]() I read that I should make sure simple file sharing is off, which it is. I know the files are on the drive as it shows up as the Free Space has been reduced. I copied a single file (drag-and-drop) to this drive and it shows up in Windows Explorer. The strange thing is that when I click on the drive in Windows Explorer, nothing shows up in the right pane of Windows Explorer (and the + goes away in the left pane). After the copy My Computer shows that ~500g has been used on the external drive. I ran a robocopy over the weekend that copied about 500g to my external drive. I've recently purchased a 750g and another 1tb external hard drives. I can take my external drive to any machine and look at it just as if it's another drive on the computer. It's great since it only copies the files that were changed/updated/new. I've been happily using robocopy for backing up my computers to an external usb drive. ![]()
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