Really odd windows 7 bug?

NutterzUK

NutterzUK

NutterzUK

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Hey,
So I have 3 drives, my SSD, and 2 1TB WD greens. I have 40gb of music on one, which I want to move into my other music folder on the other.

I select it all, right click, cut > paste, and nothing happens. The files just un-cut themselves and go back to their normal colour. So,.. I copy/paste... nothing happens.
I have now literally opened up both of the files, and dragged them accross. This time it says transfering files.. descovering,... gets to 20.2gb, then the window just disappears... and nothing is copied!
This is madness,.. such a simple thing, why won't my files move?

Any ideas?

Looks like i'm having a split up library till I find out lol.
 
P.S, i've recently installed winamp, could this somehow lock files? The files i'm moving are new though, and shouldn't be in any playlist anyway.
 
Open up a CMD prompt and type:

Code: 
robocopy "C:\My Music" "D:\My Other Music" /s

My Music is source
My Other Music is destination

Does it work?
 
Hmm, a stuck escape key... could be. Typing works fine though... but my numpad enter got stuck a while ago for no reason ( it's a SAITEK eclipse II aswel, but I have another ).

I'll try the cmd prompt, thanks... i'll get back to you.
 
ok, it's now working away like mad copying music... thankyou so much as that's made my life a lot easier....

But,.. I still can't see why. I can copy single folders out of the music folder to the new one, and single files. But just not all of them.
 
Could it be because you are moving the My Music folder but not telling your User folder that My Music is moving? Try creating a new folder called My Music, then go into your user folder (that contains My Videos, My Music etc) and right click on My Music, hit properties and change the location to the new My Music folder. Then it will ask if you want to copy the contents, warning that if you don't you will get two My Music folders in your User folder.

Does that help?
 
Sounds like a reasonable idea but it's not that i'm afraid. The music store I am moving from is not a my music folder, it's just a normal folder not linked to "My music" at all. Hmm.

Thanks though.
 
Install teracopy.

Its freeware and it replaces the windows file transfer functionality (as in, you copy/paste or drag&drop as usual and the program kicks in instead of windows).

It's faster than windows & it's gotta be worth a try!
 
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