>>>>I am trying to robocopy all files from an external drive to the hard drive on Win 7. But when I execute command ROBOCOPY from the command prompt with parameter /MIR the copying stops (gets stuck) on attempting to delete folder d:\$recycle.bin. I thought that recycle folder should be on the C drive but somehow it ended up being on d: drive. The only way I can see this folder (d:\$recycle.bin) is from the command prompt; when using Windows Explorer this file does not show.
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>>>The folder doesn't show in Windows Explorer because, by default, it's set to hide protected/operating system files. AFAIK there is a Recycle.bin folder on the root of each mounted volume.
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>>>Robocopy can exclude one or more folders - search recent messages here from me to Michel Fournier (might be in the UT forum). Or, http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html
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>>Let me tell you, using command line options can be dangerous. I used option /XD d:\$recycle.bin and it deleted all folders on the D drive. Good thing that this is a new PC and I can copy files again. So now I am doing ROBOCOPY without /MIR and it should simply copy files.
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>If you're using Robocopy interactively (rather than via a batch file, for instance) you could try a Robocopy GUI e.g. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.11.utilityspotlight.aspx
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>Google [robocopy gui]

Thank you. So far I am using robocopy at command prompt. But maybe I will try the GUI version.