Error copying multiple files to share drive

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.file_system (More info?)

Hi
Have you tried using xcopy from the command prompt? this
usually works when drag and drop fails.

Start-->run--->cmd---->enter
and enter 'xcopy /?' for syntax

good luck

>-----Original Message-----
>On trying to copy files from a Win2k laptop to a folder
on a
>network shared drive I get the following error message.
>
>Error: An error occurred trying to copy some or all of the
>selected files.
>
>The first file always copies ok, everything else fails.
>Failure occures with explorer, dragging and dropping and
>from within Excel, Powerpoint, Word etc. Have to close
both
>the application and the window into the shared drive, re-
open
>both and the copy the next file.
>
>I get the same error whether I am trying to copy all the
>files at once or one at a time. First alwasy succeeds,
the
>rest fail.
>
>Could not find any information from the knowledgebase or
>the forums on this particular problem.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Magcom
>.
>