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Many Files & Folders Not copied When Copying User Profile
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to copy the user profiles from a few different Windows 7 PCs onto a 500 GB Western Digital Passport portable hard drive. I'm doing this for a friend who's getting rid of a few PCs as she may get a new one and/or a Apple laptop. I'm familiar with Windows transfer but didn't feel safe using that as I'm not sure what OS she'll be using later on. For the first machine (a Dell laptop w/Vista), I copied the user profile folder from the laptop to the portable drive. All the files were copied, except for the ntuser files and one other that couldn't be copied. When I tried to copy the user profile on her desktop to the portable drive, I first confirmed via properties there were 48,159 files at 65 GB. Problem is, when I pasted the files into the portable drive folder the copy window that popped up said only 1911 files at 1.22 GB were being copied. All user profiles were copied but many of the files within the profiles were missing such as my documents, my pictures, my videos etc. In the main profile, only eight items out of 24 were copied. I did do a small test and successfully copied the My Pictures folder from the desktop to the portable hard drive.
Any idea what could be causing this? I tried using both the copy command as well as drag-and-drop all with the same results. The portable hard drive is new and I was able to successfully copy a user profile from her laptop to the portable hard drive.
Thanks in advance for any info you can provide.