Can't copy from a drive mapped locallly

I have a 2000 server that has a shared folder set up as a local mapped drive. If I try to copy from or to the folder using it's mapped drive letter (totaling about 1400 files and about 4 gb) using the dos copy command (this is set in a batch file) to another folder on the same server using the same mapped drive letter the job fails half way through telling me I have a network error.

If however I use drag & drop, or use dos copy from a physical drive rather than a mapped drive it works fine.

I have a need to use this mapped drive so any help would be great..

 

With batch jobs, you are better off using xcopy rather than copy. Xcopy has an /c switch that will allow it to continue even if errors occur. If you use > to pipe the output of the command, you can then easily track down any errors.

Code:

xcopy something somewhere > output.txt

Will generate a file called output.txt containing the log/error messages generated during the xcopy process.

 

Thanks Reggie,

I will give it a go but ignoring the batch file, the problem occurs if I use Xcopy, copy or xtree gold when i use the local folder mapped to a drive. If I use these commands with the physical drive it works fine:-

i.e.

Say the folder in c:\root\test1 has 1000 files and I want to copy these to say c:\root\test2 then if I use copy, xcopy, xtg or drag & drop it works fine.

If I then locally map say drive letter T to c:\Root and I now use copy, xcopy or xtg to copy the files as eg "copy t:\test1\*.* t:\test2\*.*" it will stop half way through and fail with a network error even though the mapped drive is not pointing to en external drive. As i say it is pointing to itself. also where is stops is random but around 1/3 to 1/2 way through the process..

If you can shed any light on this it would be great as we have a need & reason to copy through a loca mapped drive

Many thanks,

 

If you monitor the traffic on your network connection, does it reflect the movement of data via its send/receive statistic?

Is the server also your AD server?