Errorwhile Moving large folders

Hi,
I have a Windows XP professional. I am trying to move a large folder (5.5
GB) from a network drive to another folder in the same network drive. I first
tried with windows Explorer, then using standard DOS prompt and now with
Windows Powershell.
Can Windows handle such a large folder move successfully?
I get the following error. I see that the folder is moved but with this
error, I am not sure if it moved successfully. Can u suggest a best way to
move folders in Windows? I thouht Powershell is powerful enough to do such
tasks. Please advise.

PS K:\WCCT Docs\Software2> mv RSA_V7.0 'K:\WCCT Docs\Tech-Arch'
Move-Item : The specified network name is no longer available.
At line:1 char:3
+ mv <<<< RSA_V7.0 'K:\WCCT Docs\Tech-Arch'

Thanks,
Sanjay

I'd say the network is the issue here. What you are doing is copying the files from the network to your machine and then back to the network. This will go much faster if you can execute the move command locally on the file server. An alternative is to use Robocopy which is better at handling timeouts and errors.

Is there a way if this can be done without logging into the network server? I
do have read/write permissions to this folder. Is this a Windows limitation?
If source and destination are the same as Network host, I guess Move or Copy
should use the host server and not my local host.

Thanks for your answer.

Sanjay


"sapienscripter" wrote:

If you can't execute this locally on the file server, then use Robocopy which has a retry feature.. I've run into this problem myself with Windows when copying a lot of files over the network. Happens to me on XP and Vista.

I believe that even though you are copying from one network drive to another, your machine has to read the file and then write it. Windows networking sometimes craps out.

Use Robocopy or copy files in smaller chunks.