Windows 10: robocopy fails at the folder My Music

I’m using robocopy to create a mirror backup folder. It doesn’t finish and the reason seems strange. I’m working from folder C:\Users\belli\Documents. This is separate from the OneDrive\Documents, as I’m not using OneDrive that folder still exists and some programs use it. robocopy runs as expected until about the middle. This Documents folder does not have a sub folder named My Music. Even so, in the mirror folder a My Music folder is created. In the log file I see: New Dir 0 C:\Users\belli\Documents\My Music\ 2025/03/29 14:46:27 ERROR 5 0x00000005 Time-Stamping Destination

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Robocopy copies folders not in Documents to my backup Documents folder on 2nd drive.

Two things:

• You must surroound your folder names with double quotes:
  
  robocopy "C:\Users\my name\Documents . . ." "D:\Dropbox\my name\Documents
  . . ."
• Robocopy often hides target folders, causing users to think they are missing. Look for hidden folders.

 

Robocopy failing on files in folder synced to OneDrive

Robocopy is failing on files in folder synced to OneDrive. I am getting this error

New File 31338 C:\Clancy\A_Prime8\AA_FY23\Microsoft\Program - TerryClancy\Guides\MigratingCustomersFromXXXXToYYYY.docx

2023/05/10 10:59:51 ERROR 1 (0x00000001) Copying File C:\Clancy\A_Prime8\AA_FY23\Microsoft\Program - TerryClancy\Guides\MigratingCustomersFromXXXXToYYYY.docx

Incorrect function.

To remove One Drive from the equation I first paused (did not help) and then stopped OneDrive, that did not help.

If I then open the doc in word and save it to the same location and to a different location then the copy in the same location still fails and the copy in the new location fails. ICACLS shows the same attributes on those two files. Permissions also look to be the same and I am using /B in my RObocopy command from an elevated command prompt. Here is the Robocopy command:

ROBOCOPY C:\Clancy D:\BUP\TCRazerPC\Clancy /XD Search SearchTest1 /MT:32 /MIR /R:2 /W:1 /FFT /B /TEE /LOG:C:\BatRun\Logs\BUP2D_%clancydatetime%-ROBOLOG1-.TXT

Any help appreciated

Terry Clancy

 

Robocopy copies folders not in Documents to my backup Documents folder on 2nd drive.

I currently have 2 PCs with Windows 10 that I backup Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos to a 3rd PC folder that is backed up to the Cloud. On my PC, the Music, Pictures and Videos folders are not under Documents. They are at the same level as Documents
under my user name.

I had been using SyncToy to do the copying, but had to switch to Robocopy because SyncToy does not work right under Windows 10. All works fine. The SyncToy command and then the Robocopy command run on the 3rd PC.

I want to eliminate the 3rd PC and move the backup folder to a 2nd hard drive on my PC. That is where the problem begins. Robocopy will now run on my PC. When Robocopy copies the Document folder to the backup Documents folder, it copies 'My Music', 'My
Pictures' and 'My Videos' to the backup Documents folder. These folders do not exist in the Documents folder. It appears that there is some link that connects 'My Music' to the separate Music folder. The same applies to 'My Pictures' and 'My Videos'.

This is the Robocopy command that I want to use to copy the Documents data to the backup Documents folder:

robocopy C:\Users\my name\Documents C:\Users\my name\Dropbox\PC1\Documents /mir >> c:\robocopybackup_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%.log

I tried adding the /XL Robocopy option to block the copy of these unwanted folders to my backup:

robocopy C:\Users\my name\Documents D:\Dropbox\my name\Documents /XD "C:\Users\my name\Documents\My Music","C:\Users\my name\Documents\My Pictures","C:\Users\my name\Documents\My Videos" /mir >> c:\robocopybackup_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%.log

This did not help. Please tell me what to do.....

Thank you!