Windows 10: robocopy only copies a couple of files

Initially I'd like to simply copy updated or missing files from the source to the destination locally...make a backup basically. I created an empty directory "testfolder" on the destination. I've tried NTFS and FAT32 destination drives initially I thought FAT32 was the issue. I've tried as administrator. robocopy "C:\Users\me\Documents" "D:\testfolder" /sIt only copies a couple of files out of one of the source subdirectories not other files w/same extension in the same subdirectory and none of the other ..\Documents\subdirectories which are not empty. What am I missing?Thx

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Cannot force ROBOCOPY to copy files with /IS

Well... I never clearly understood where the boundary lies...

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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

 

Robocopy vs Copy-paste

Actually, that command won't list files that are not being copied BUT it lists all the directories that it traverses. To suppress that. simply tack on a /NDL (No Directory Listing).

In the sample output below, note that the folder I am mirroring has 820 directories and 2708 files. The folders are already synced so not a single file or directory is displayed in the output.

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