Copying and moving files with Windows Explorer is not reliable. Depending on what error you get, the action is interrupted and does not continue, even if you hit the "Skip" button. Here is an example I had several times during the last 2 weeks:
I am looking for a tool that
moves files from one folder to another folder as the result of a drag'n'drop action like Windows Explorer
is unstoppable, i.e. continues with the remaining files even in worst cases. Ideally it would even ask to reconnect the disk if the disk was accidentally ejected or had a power loss or other hardware failure
asks to take over the permissions like Windows Explorer does with this dialog:
is able to process system files like
works with NTFS (which has all these security features)
works on Windows 10
is gratis or less than 10 €
The tool may
- ask once but always provide a "do this for all items" checkbox
The tool needn't
- copy the permissions. It would be ok if the destination file is world-readable (like
0777
on Linux).
Ideally, the tool
- reads $MFT directly, like Search Everything or WizTree. (Because Windows is soooo slow in finding files)
Basically, I want to move everything that I drag'n'dropped without much asking. The disks that I process are old, damaged or in some other way hardly usable. If the file system is damaged so hard, I am gonna use other tools, which require much more skill and will thus cost
I know that moving causes write operations which is not ideal. But I need to know which files have been processed an which have not. A file no longer being on the source disk is a clear indicator for "was processed" in this scenario.
Why not use a backup tool? I will exclude a lot of folders like Program Files, Program Files(x86), Windows, ProgramData, ... What I do is data migration, not a backup.