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hishighness

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Hey all,

I'm in the process of attempting to streamline my computer, getting all the video files in one place and the pictures, etc. But I've found Windows Explorer usually causes more problems than it solves. I do a search for say all .jpg files and it finds them so I highlight all of them and try to copy but it comes up Cannot move file: Cannot read from the source file or disk. Now obviously there's one or more files in there that have a problem but it won't even tell me which one(s) they are. Is there a way to set it so it'll transfer all the files it doesn't have a problem with, or a program that can do that for me, or at least get it to tell me which files it has a problem with so I can deselect them?

I'd appreciate any help you could offer.

Thanks for your time,

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gerryf

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I suspect you are trying to move files that are in use in some way....Can you use the search function more discriminantly by using
LOOK IN:
browse....and selecting a folder subset?
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