Moving folders/files doesn't move everything

mbfonz

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I have an HP Pavilion a6000n Desktop PC, with Vista Home Premium 32bit with the following specs:
- Athlon 64 X2 (W) 4200+ 2.2 GHz
- 3 Gig RAM
- Asus M2N68-LA Motherboard, w/ Integrated graphics
- No Service Packs installed yet.

I have been having this problem, I keep all my music (mp3) files on my laptop and managed by a music player on that laptop. Every few months I will copy all files located under a main music directory to a thumb drive and then move it to my Vista desktop machine to provide a second copy of that music and its files. The problem I'm having is when I select to move the Music folder and all files (several thousand files in several nested folders) underneath to a directory in Vista that already contains a copy of my music files it starts to copy and prompts me whether I want to merge folders that already exist to which I click Yes. When it gives me the option of a checkbox in the bottom left corner saying apply this option for all X number of additional conflicts I check it to confirm. Well it goes to moving the files and when it's done, I still have plenty of folders and files that did not fully move. I can do this several times and in different ways too ( right-click drag and drop - then select Move Files or Cut the Music Folder and Paste in Vista - even doing this with right-click menu and with Ctrl+c & Ctrl+v) and it works the same each time. It's frustrating having to move the files multiple tries until it gets all the files.

Any ideas to help enable Vista to complete the move/merge/overwrite of files the first time? Please help me, thanks.

MBFonz
 

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