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Robocopy is built into Windows, and it's the best file copier imaginable

I seldom pay attention to basic file explorer actions, such as copying and moving files or folders. As long as the transfer completes without errors, I'm content with the results. Back in 2013, I used ...
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Robocopy is still the fastest way to copy thousands of files on Windows, and I wasted years not using it

Windows is a bundle of both CLI and GUI tools. We use the GUI ones more because they serve a broader use case and are convenient to use. For file copying and moving, I hadn't ventured much outside the ...
Ars Technica

RoboCopy files copy to target however I am getting this error ERROR 5 (0x00000005)

I am new user so I hope I am in the right place! I am having a problem with RoboCopy that I am not sure how to troubleshoot. The problem is that I am getting the ...
Ars Technica

Robocopy not detecting changed files?

I'm experimenting the use of Robocopy (the XP version, from the Windows XP Resource Kit) to backup a server. Robocopy is running on the local PC, making a local copy of a tree of user files from the ...
MCPmag

Using Robocopy To Transfer Files

The GUI is fine if you're only moving a few files, but for larger and more complex migrations, this built-in Windows utility is the way to go. There are many ways to get a file from Point A to Point B ...
XDA Developers

I stopped using third-party file transfer tools after discovering Robocopy

Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration ...