Full Version: weird file copying problem
From: milko [#1]
14 Mar 21:01
To: ALL
There is a problem accessing [destination drive]\[folder]\[subfolder]\[filename]
Make sure you are connected to the network and try again.
I am connected. Trying again does not work, though as I say if I go back later and do it again it'll be fine. It's always the first file in a folder. It's not always the same filetype or anything like that. SOME just-about-identical folders copy completely.
It's kind of fucking me off. My external drive died recently so I'm re-backing up a lot of stuff and this makes it need more input than it should as it interrupts and freezes the job each time. Grarggh.
Incidentally, the Netgear ReadyNAS is well smart. I now have a spare NSLU2 unit if anyone's interested.
From: ANT_THOMAS [#2]
14 Mar 21:03
To: milko [#1] 14 Mar 21:19
From: milko [#3]
14 Mar 21:19
To: ANT_THOMAS [#2] 14 Mar 21:31
From: ANT_THOMAS [#4]
14 Mar 21:33
To: milko [#3] 14 Mar 21:39
No idea what it means to be honest, I just like suggesting these things to give other people ideas in case something odd happens :$
I usually prefer to do large amounts of copying using the command prompt with the xcopy command. I guess I've had too many "Not Responding" fuck ups when doing big copying jobs using Windows Explorer.
From: Matt [#5]
14 Mar 21:57
To: ANT_THOMAS [#4] 14 Mar 21:59
Ditto, except I use robocopy.
Milko: Is it the source file that it can't access or the destination file? I'm thinking anti-virus or some other anti-malware program that is locking the file and preventing Windows from reading or writing to it.
From: milko [#6]
14 Mar 22:04
To: Matt [#5] 14 Mar 22:32
From: Matt [#7]
14 Mar 22:35
To: milko [#6] 14 Mar 23:57
From: milko [#8]
14 Mar 23:58
To: Matt [#7] 15 Mar 9:50
From: milko [#9]
15 Mar 9:48
To: Matt [#7] 15 Mar 9:50
From: Matt [#10]
15 Mar 9:55
To: milko [#9] 15 Mar 11:00
You might try submitting a support case or posting on the community forums, too: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/support.aspx?mkt=en-us&s=3#mainNav
I still use NOD32, have done for last 3 or 4 years, but it's not free. MSE is easily the best you'll get for free, even if it does have weird problems with copying files to USB devices.
From: Radio [#11]
15 Mar 10:17
To: Matt [#10] 15 Mar 10:30
I use Avast, which is still free.
I'm sure there's probably a reason I shouldn't, but I've had no problems with it - and its certainly not the memory hungry beast that AVG was.
From: Matt [#12]
15 Mar 10:40
To: Radio [#11] 15 Mar 10:56
The default interface looks like a car CD player and it absolutely kills older machines / those with limited memory. Admittedly the interface can be changed, albeit to the wrongly named "Simple User Interface" which if anything is more in-depth and complicated, and far from simple.
Started to switch to MSE which is much lighter on it's feet and gave new life to a neighbours AMD 3200+ which only has 512MB RAM.
From: milko [#13]
15 Mar 11:03
To: Matt [#10] 15 Mar 11:04
From: milko [#14]
15 Mar 22:45
To: ALL
Fucking computers and fucking especially fucking networks :C
From: Matt [#15]
15 Mar 23:39
To: milko [#14] 15 Mar 23:44
From: milko [#16]
16 Mar 0:18
To: Matt [#15] 16 Mar 9:06
From: milko [#17]
16 Mar 0:23
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From: Kriv [#18]
18 Mar 1:15
To: milko [#17] 18 Mar 11:00
Got the Readynas NV+ which is excellent.
I think the services on the device is pretty standard so the following may help as it's what I needed to do.
1. Autotune on Vista & Win 7. Had to disable this as it was causing a whole world of pain.
2. Services, found that there were a few turn on which were not necessary which caused issue. Leave on CIFS and NFS and turn off as many of the others as you can. This had a massive impact stopping the crippled copying. I think you have a Mac...? If so I don't know what will happen if you disable AFP.
3. Router. I found that my router was crippling transfer speeds, probably worth googling your router / ready nas combo to see if firmware is a cause.
4. Jumbo frames, If your router or NIC doesn't support it, disable. Causes loads of failed packets.
5. (not really pertanant to your issue) RAM. I think you can upgrade the RAM in the device. If you can get it stable then this is your next move. Get around a 10% - 15% performance increase.
6. If all else fails http://www.readynas.com/forum/ yoh-dah is pretty good at covering issues, but there is a great user base on there that can help.
From: milko [#19]
18 Mar 11:01
To: Kriv [#18] 19 Mar 10:48
I have a Mac but only at work so I guess I don't need AFP enabled usually.
From: Kriv [#20]
19 Mar 10:49
To: milko [#19] 19 Mar 11:26
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