I am trying to copy files off a bad hard-drive. Windows occasionally opens a dialog to let me know there were errors copying certain files.
If I choose "skip" and "Do this for all current items", will it skip all items and finish copying immediately? Or will it only skip future bad files? If the latter, will it also automatically skip other items that have different issues (eg. require administrator permissions, file currently locked, filename too long, etc)?
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It will skip only future bad files (only same items).
Due to my experience, it skips all items which have similar issue to your current file. For example I was copying files through windows to external harddisk. I used skip button, but then windows opened a box that this file name is too long and can't be copied, u want skip or try again. So I beleive windows categorizing files. If u skip, it all happens to same category files in future.
Choosing 'skip' and 'do this for every occurrence will skip the files that cannot be copy or need permissions without asking you anything. When I am trying to save data from one disk to another I am using Total Commander because if, for some reason, the copy process will stop working in the middle of action you won't loose data that was already transferred.
