Copying data files to another drive dumps them on C

[halem2]

Hi folks:

have a lilttle problem. I'm copying data files, which are nested down to 3 levels, from a second partition on a hard drive to a network drive. While doing so, I get an error stating there's no room in drive C (even though I was copying from E to J). When I look at C, I find that random nested folders I was copying to J are now under the root C. The folders are not dumped on C in the same order they are on E. It seems Windows randomly picked whichever folders and copied them to C .

Any ideas? Is there any Microsoft documentation about this?

thanks a lot..

[Paul Komski]

It seems Windows randomly picked whichever folders and copied them to C .
It wont have been random but the files are not necessarily copied in the same order as they appear in Explorer.

How, specifically, are you copying the files. Edit Menu then Copy and Paste, RClick Menu then Copy and Paste, CTRL+C then CTRL+V, or RightDragging them across, or using a send to RClick menu? And does this happen with any of these methods?

[halem2]

Paul:

It was using right click purposely to get the menu and copy. Are you familiar with this issue? Is there anything from Microsoft about copy files related to this problem?

thanks

[Paul Komski]

It just sounded like the files were being copied to the C drive by accident or by a bug and because there was insufficient space there only some of them got copied. I am familiar with this partial copying being problematic since the files are not in the same "order" as seen in Windows explorer and it can be hard sorting them out after the event.

I was just trying to see if different methods would have the same results; if they all did so then it would indicate a deep windows bug. You could also try http://www.trogsoft.com/products/sendto/ which allows you to copy stuff without any dragging/highlighting/etc; this would take any user error (god forbid!) out of the equation.

[halem2]

Nope. I have over 10GB of free space in each drive. There was no mistake copying it. That's why for years I've been doing the right click so I get the menu.

thanks for the effort..

[Paul Komski]

Sorry - more Qs.

Does this happen with just one simple file?

Does it happen with the keyboard shortcuts CTRL+C and CTRL+V?

Is the network drive mapped to a Drive Letter?

Does it happen if you deliberately copy to a HDD partition instead of a network drive?

Do any of the files have excetionally long file names or forbidden/reserved characters?