Copying files from Vista to XP is broken
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Vista sits there "calculating time remaining" and never copies the file. WTF? I am resorting to copying the files onto a USB drive and sneakernetting them to my XP box, which is all of 3 feet away. Marc
Try 'pulling' the file from XP rather than 'pushing' it from Vista. That certainly works for me (although I have not experienced the problem you describe). Also, it might conceivably be a permissions problem. There are apparently some long-ish timeouts (5 seconds or so) in Explorer for certain file operations before reporting 'Access Denied'. When did it stop working? Will I be next? :~
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
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Vista sits there "calculating time remaining" and never copies the file. WTF? I am resorting to copying the files onto a USB drive and sneakernetting them to my XP box, which is all of 3 feet away. Marc
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Vista sits there "calculating time remaining" and never copies the file. WTF? I am resorting to copying the files onto a USB drive and sneakernetting them to my XP box, which is all of 3 feet away. Marc
I've had this with Vista. It does *eventually* copy the file even though visually it pretends not to be doing anything. But it is incredibly slow. There is a related hotfix but it doesn't seem to make a jot of difference to me.
-- The Obliterator
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I've had this with Vista. It does *eventually* copy the file even though visually it pretends not to be doing anything. But it is incredibly slow. There is a related hotfix but it doesn't seem to make a jot of difference to me.
-- The Obliterator
Obliterator wrote:
But it is incredibly slow.
Yeah, I opened up the network status thingy and noticed it was sending a lot of data. For a 20MB file, it ended up sending about 40MB of packets. That's pretty pathetic. Marc
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Try 'pulling' the file from XP rather than 'pushing' it from Vista. That certainly works for me (although I have not experienced the problem you describe). Also, it might conceivably be a permissions problem. There are apparently some long-ish timeouts (5 seconds or so) in Explorer for certain file operations before reporting 'Access Denied'. When did it stop working? Will I be next? :~
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) wrote:
Try 'pulling' the file from XP rather than 'pushing' it from Vista.
I currently can't do that because, while Vista sees the shared folder on the XP box, the XP box can't see the Vista shared folder. Well, it sees it, but it gives me "access denied". Not even a login authorization box. WTF is with that?
Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) wrote:
When did it stop working? Will I be next?
Don't know for sure. It's been a while since I needed to copy some files, and this is on a clean install of XP. Marc
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Obliterator wrote:
But it is incredibly slow.
Yeah, I opened up the network status thingy and noticed it was sending a lot of data. For a 20MB file, it ended up sending about 40MB of packets. That's pretty pathetic. Marc
I believe there's a hotfix for this or some registry setting you can change to work around it.
Todd Smith
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Vista sits there "calculating time remaining" and never copies the file. WTF? I am resorting to copying the files onto a USB drive and sneakernetting them to my XP box, which is all of 3 feet away. Marc
NetBIOS over TCP is enabled? That worked for me. Mark
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I have trouble trying to copy from a 2000 shared drive to Vista's C Drive (initiating the copy from a Vista disktop). I have to first copy the files to my desktop, then I can copy them anywhere I want once they are in my profile.
bob16972 wrote:
I have trouble...
As in?
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Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) wrote:
Try 'pulling' the file from XP rather than 'pushing' it from Vista.
I currently can't do that because, while Vista sees the shared folder on the XP box, the XP box can't see the Vista shared folder. Well, it sees it, but it gives me "access denied". Not even a login authorization box. WTF is with that?
Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) wrote:
When did it stop working? Will I be next?
Don't know for sure. It's been a while since I needed to copy some files, and this is on a clean install of XP. Marc
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Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) wrote:
Try 'pulling' the file from XP rather than 'pushing' it from Vista.
I currently can't do that because, while Vista sees the shared folder on the XP box, the XP box can't see the Vista shared folder. Well, it sees it, but it gives me "access denied". Not even a login authorization box. WTF is with that?
Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) wrote:
When did it stop working? Will I be next?
Don't know for sure. It's been a while since I needed to copy some files, and this is on a clean install of XP. Marc
Try creating a user account on your XP box with the same credentials (user ID and password) as you use to login on your Vista machine, and vice versa. You should at least then be able to see your shared folders. Another thing to try is 'net use' in a (shock, horror!) command window. This lets you map drive letters quickly and easily and will prompt you for a user ID and password if one is needed. Type 'net help use' for help.
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
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Vista sits there "calculating time remaining" and never copies the file. WTF? I am resorting to copying the files onto a USB drive and sneakernetting them to my XP box, which is all of 3 feet away. Marc
SP1 ? It's one of the issues that it is supposed to clear.
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SP1 ? It's one of the issues that it is supposed to clear.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:
SP1 ? It's one of the issues that it is supposed to clear.
I checked--it's SP2 Marc
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:
SP1 ? It's one of the issues that it is supposed to clear.
I checked--it's SP2 Marc
Vista sp1 I think he meant. I had this problem a long time ago, it turned out to be something really esoteric and as I recall perfectly understandable but the screw up part is MS doesn't show the actual error message about what's going on. Some kind of rights thing I think. I vaguely remember making an account on the destination computer that had the same username and login as my Vista box and it fixed it but that's only a vague memory.
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
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Vista sits there "calculating time remaining" and never copies the file. WTF? I am resorting to copying the files onto a USB drive and sneakernetting them to my XP box, which is all of 3 feet away. Marc
Command prompt & xcopy? Like you, I've encountered this issue with Vista (on my Dad's PC - I've got nothing newer than XP myself) - 1 or 2 MB of files taking minutes(!) to copy.
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Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) wrote:
Try 'pulling' the file from XP rather than 'pushing' it from Vista.
I currently can't do that because, while Vista sees the shared folder on the XP box, the XP box can't see the Vista shared folder. Well, it sees it, but it gives me "access denied". Not even a login authorization box. WTF is with that?
Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) wrote:
When did it stop working? Will I be next?
Don't know for sure. It's been a while since I needed to copy some files, and this is on a clean install of XP. Marc