On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:19:35 -0500, H Brown wrote:
> Hi Gene
> I agree with you, my comments were pointed at the OP and not at you,
> because the OP never reveled what *type* of files he was trying to move to a
> different drive nor the method he used. Your methods as I said before work
> fine. Instead of "you" I should have said your method causes the OS to
> delete the files during the operation. I could tell you knew what you were
> doing. I just not sure of the OP based of the information he provided or
> the lack thereof.
>
> Thanks for your reply
> H Brown
OK, I got it now :-) Sorry to have snapped at you.
I just reread the OP, and I just think there must be some corruption or
malware in the OP's system, assuming he's trying to move files from one
place to another in a conventional way.
I guess there could be a problem with permissions (rather than system
corruption or malware) if the move involves files with some level of
protection, but as you point out, there is not much info in the post - and
the poster seems to have gone away, so we'll probably never know. One of
life's little mysteries :-)
Gino
> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
> news:2xkdrz04d97t$....
>> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:07:11 -0500, H Brown wrote:
>>
>>> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:34:36 -0700 (PDT), Duncs wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Apparently, when it's in Vista!
>>>>>
>>>>> All I'm trying to do is move files from one drive to another, and
>>>>> Vista refuses to do it. It goes through the process of discovering
>>>>> files and calculates the number of items / size. It then just sits
>>>>> there. When I click on the 'More Information' button, it does show
>>>>> the 'Items remaining' decreasing, but the speed is always 0 bytes /
>>>>> sec and it doesn't actually do anything.
>>>>>
>>>>> When it does eventually go away, there are still files in the 'Items
>>>>> remaining' count and the files I wanted moved, are still in their
>>>>> original location.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone any ideas?
>>>>> TIA
>>>
>>>>> Duncs
>>>>
>>>> I had no trouble moving a file or a folder with its contents from (in
>>>> this
>>>> case) C: to a USB drive.
>>>>
>>>> I did it with Ctrl-X followed by Ctrl-V. I also used drag-and-drop; I
>>>> *did*
>>>> have to press the shift key in that case;
>>>>
>>>> HTH
>>>> Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom
>>>
>>> Hi Gene
>>> Your methods are correct and do work because you are deleting the source
>>> file (during the operation) from one drive therefore allowing a move
>>> operation to take place.
>>
>> Uh - this is the definition of Move...*I* am not deleting the source files
>> *during* the operation - the *OS* is deleting the source files *after* the
>> copy.
>>
>> I was trying to point out to the OP that on at least one Vista machine,
>> Move works as it should.
>>
>>> Apparently the OP is selecting multiple files and
>>> trying to move them to a different drive using a method ( not divulged)
>>> that does not delete the source files during the operation.
>>
>> See above.
>>
>>> Even the
>>> Shift+drag and drop where the shift key was also used in the selection of
>>> multiple files can result in some files not being moved. Vista wants to
>>> make sure you are purposely wanting to delete files from one drive and
>>> move
>>> them to a different drive. Vista is trying to prevent casual mistakes
>>> that
>>> could easily happen, particularly when selecting multiple files and doing
>>> drag and drop.
>>
>> I can't say I believe this. I certainly have never experienced it.
>>
>>> This opens up another questions. You move a multiple files from one
>>> drive
>>> to another and those files are no longer located on the original source
>>> drive therefore making the drive you moved them to the new source.
>>
>> They are not any kind of source unless I choose to select them for some
>> further operation.
>>
>> If I choose to select the files I just moved and by an approved method
>> move
>> them to some other place (their original location included), that's just a
>> new move and works as such. Believe me.
>>
>>> Will the
>>> same rules apply or Not apply when it comes to moving those same files
>>> back
>>> to the original source drive
>>
>> Of course.
>>
>>> ((assuming you could locate all or them)
>>
>> Assuming, in other words, that I knew what I was doing...
>>
>>> after
>>> you find out that moving files around particularly to other drives was
>>> not
>>> such a good idea.))
>>
>> Given the same assumption as above, I won't be changing my mind...
>>
>>> So what changed or did not change and why?
>>
>> Nothing, and no reason needed.
>>
>>> H Brown
>>
>>
>> --
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