Windows 10: Cannot write file to virtual machine, Canceling the file copy operation

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When trying to copy files into your VMware Workstation or Player VM, you may encounter Cannot write to local file. Canceling the file copy operation. What is happening in this case is that VMware stages the file in your host’s temporary directory first, and if that staging process fails, it kills the operation entirely. In this […]

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Java.nio.file - Copying files

You can't copy a folder, thats why it generates an exception (you are trying to copy a folder using a copy file function).
You probably need to list all the files inside that folder and copy one by one

 

Java.nio.file - Copying files

Issue was the above, so thanks temp02.

 

Windows 10: Why does a Copy/File operation when Cancelled take seemingly forever to actually cancel ?

Hi,

when copy operation starts it creates a list of future actions including a list of files. If one cancels operation the system needs to clear this queue and this takes some time for each file. The more files were still in queue, the longer it cancelling.