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Vista - RE: Windows Easy Transfer hanging on one file (quick help needed)

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Old 06-01-2007   #1 (permalink)
Brian Clemens


 
 

RE: Windows Easy Transfer hanging on one file (quick help needed)

Try e-mailing the file to yourself and skip it when transfering. It might be
corrupted and causing the check to fail, making it "hang".

"Dan D" wrote:

> I am running Easy Transfer to send files from an XP machine to a Vista
> Machine. I am only sending the my documents, pictures, and My Music folders,
> but there are about 20 gigs of files involved. I started running the process
> about 2 hours ago. On the XP computer, the status bar indicates that it is
> steadily going through the music files (it's about 1/4 done with all the
> files). However, on the Vista computer, the status bar screen appears to be
> stuck on one file (it looks like its been trying to transsfer the same
> "birthday.gif" file for over an hour. Does this mean something is wrong? I
> don't want to wait 8-10 hours for the process to finish running just to find
> out it hung on one file. Neither computer seems to let me do anything else
> while the process is running.


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