Windows 10: Copying large directory does not function correctly

Greetings people of Reddit, I was moving a rather large directory (389 gigs) in the latest version of Windows 10 from an internal hard drive to another internal hard drive. The directory had many many levels of directories and files under it. After completing my file transfer which showed no indication of loss of data I unfortunately formated the source hard drive. And when I needed to use the data I transfered I found out that almost all of the data 5 directories in from the root folder were missing. I'm fucked. There is truly nothing that can be done for it as the other hard drive is populated with data and any sort of recovery option is gone. I simply wanted to ask everyone here whether they know about this issue, has anyone faced it and what steps can I take in order to ensure that this does not happen again. This is clearly a bug in windows 10.

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Copy Directory Keeps throwing Exceptions :[

I couldn't find any good code for a recusive copy to point you to so I decided to write my own...

Code: Imports System.IO Module StaticMethods ''' <summary> ''' Recursively copies a directory and files to a new location. ''' </summary> ''' <param name="source">The folder name to copy.</param> ''' <param name="destination">The name of the folder to copy to (will be created if not exist).</param> ''' <param name="recursive">Whether or not to copy sub directories.</param> ''' <param name="overwrite">Whether or not to overwrite files.</param> ''' <param name="delete_dest_before_copy">Whether or not to delete the destination directory before copying (ensures a 1:1 copy).</param> ''' <returns>An exception or Nothing if there were no problems.</returns> Public Function CopyDirectory(ByVal source As String, ByVal destination As String, Optional ByVal recursive As Boolean = True, Optional ByVal overwrite As Boolean = True, Optional ByVal delete_dest_before_copy As Boolean = False) As Exception Try ' Delete the destination directory if the option is true. If delete_dest_before_copy Then If Directory.Exists(destination) Then Directory.Delete(destination, True) End If ' Get information about the source directory and destination directory. Dim source_info As DirectoryInfo = New DirectoryInfo(source) Dim dest_info As DirectoryInfo = New DirectoryInfo(destination) ' Make sure the directory exists. dest_info.Create() ' If set to act recursively, perform the option for all sub directories. If recursive Then For Each dir As DirectoryInfo In source_info.GetDirectories() CopyDirectory(dir.FullName, Path.Combine(dest_info.FullName, dir.Name), recursive, overwrite, False) Next End If ' Copy all files in this directory. For Each file As FileInfo In source_info.GetFiles() file.CopyTo(Path.Combine(dest_info.FullName, file.Name), overwrite) Next Catch ex As Exception Return ex ' Return the exception error. End Try Return Nothing ' No errors. End Function Sub Main() ' Testing the code. Dim result As Exception = StaticMethods.CopyDirectory("C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\Chess", "C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\Copy\Chess", True, True) If Not result Is Nothing Then Console.Write(result.ToString()) Console.ReadKey() End If End Sub End Module[/quote] All it requires to work is CopyDirectory(source, destination). The other arguments are optional.


Alternatively, you could do...
Code: My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory(folder, newlocation, True)[/quote] ...that is effectively the same as...
Code: CopyDirectory(folder, newlocation)[/quote] ...but I'm pretty sure My.Computer is a VB only thing so it's a bad habit to get into using that.

 

Directory Size Utility

First of all nice utility, Mindweaver!
Second of all, it's so nice to see that this section ain't dead.

I have a few questions/suggestions, maybe you'd want to see ...

• maybe you rename Get Folder button caption to something more intuitive? Add Folder, Get Folder Size, Check Folder Size or something like that?
  
• Could you add subfolder files to the right pane? (it can be a tickbox with include sub dirs)
  
• maybe you also add export list to excel?
  
• there's delete file button maybe you add delete folder button too?
  
• and finally maybe you can add UP button for directories?

 

Directory Size Utility

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