When backing up an external hard drive on Windows 10 some files won’t copy and paste to another hard drive.
The contents of the drive I want to copy are the following folders:
- inspiration (62.4GB)
- old stuff (7.9GB)
- music (17.5GB)
- my_computer (1.78GB)
- school backup (638MB)
- working_files (19.7GB)
I was able to transfer some with file copy: the “school backup,” “my_computer,” and “music.”
At first I thought the reason some weren’t copying over was because of the file size but the music folder with 17.5GB transferred ok. Meanwhile the old stuff folder won't copy.
I also tried copying subfolders from the old stuff folder and none of those will copy either. I checked the permissions on the blocked folder and all of the permissions are allowed.
What would cause some folders to copy and paste to another location and stop others?