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by Bill Chambers on Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:41 am
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I installed new drives yesterday, and I ran Synctoy (on Echo) to copy files to two other drives for back-ups.  After it ran it had quite a few failures displayed.  I was wondering if anyone could tell how to find out what files failed to copy, and what caused the failures, and what to do about it?

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by E.J. Peiker on Sun Jul 05, 2020 5:55 am
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SyncToy copies data files, not system files or hidden files. It isn't a clone tool, it's a data backup tool. What is on your B drive? Is it a system drive or a data drive or a bit of both? 99.9% of the time, this is not an issue and it's just system oriented files.
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by Bill Chambers on Sun Jul 05, 2020 11:23 am
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The only files that I have put on B: drive is images. This is my new 12TB hard drive and I ran Synctoy from it to the new 12TB external drive. The only files I've ever put on the previous 4TB drive this one replaced were image files as well.

When you format a new drive, does that place any kind of system or data files on the drive?
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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Jul 06, 2020 12:46 pm
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Generally not. What does it say when you click on "See Errors"
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by Bill Chambers on Mon Jul 06, 2020 5:22 pm
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I don't know, E.J..  I didn't see the tiny "See Errors" until I posted the screenshot, and by that time it had been cleared from the screen.  I'll wait until Wednesday when I run another back-up to that drive.
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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Jul 06, 2020 6:09 pm
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Bill Chambers wrote:I don't know, E.J..  I didn't see the tiny "See Errors" until I posted the screenshot, and by that time it had been cleared from the screen.  I'll wait until Wednesday when I run another back-up to that drive.
Yeah, I figured you'd have to rerun it.  Then it should tell you which files didn't copy and you can then determine if those are real image files that are damaged on your master or if they are just garbage don't care files with weird names and extensions.
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by Bill Chambers on Sun Jul 12, 2020 11:42 am
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OK, I have re-run Synctoy twice now since my last message and have not had any more failures, so that is a very good thing.  I still get ONE error however, but I don't know if it is "Serious" error or a "not a big deal" error.  The screenshot of the error is below:
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Can you tell anything from this?

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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Jul 13, 2020 6:36 pm
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That error is normal, that is the file that synctoy uses to track what's on each drive. By definition it won't copy that file from the original because then it won't be able to keep track of differences between the two.
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by Bill Chambers on Mon Jul 13, 2020 8:05 pm
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E.J. Peiker wrote:That error is normal, that is the file that synctoy uses to track what's on each drive.  By definition it won't copy that file from the original because then it won't be able to keep track of differences between the two.
Excellent.  Thanks, E.J.

Desktop is running wonderfully again after the new graphics card and the new hard drives; have a much larger scratch disk now and the 6 GB graphics card increased speed very nicely.  Thanks for all of your help.
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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Jul 13, 2020 8:16 pm
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Excellent :)

Sounds like you learned a lot in the process too :)
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by Bill Chambers on Mon Jul 13, 2020 9:27 pm
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Indeed I did. Always nice to learn new things! Thanks for your patience.
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