Copy Files problem

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I am attempting to copy a number of files from one directory (Novell
fileserver) to my c: drive. The files that are highlighted with blue text in
windows explorer do not appear to get copied across.

Firstly, could anyone tell me the significance of the blue highlighting.

Secondly I believe the copying is performed by a call to a CopyFileA API ( a
hangover from our win98 days). Does anyone know why the copy of the blue
highlighted files will not work.

Thanks in advance.
 
Paul Gibbs said:
I am attempting to copy a number of files from one directory (Novell
fileserver) to my c: drive. The files that are highlighted with blue text in
windows explorer do not appear to get copied across.

Firstly, could anyone tell me the significance of the blue highlighting.

Secondly I believe the copying is performed by a call to a CopyFileA API ( a
hangover from our win98 days). Does anyone know why the copy of the blue
highlighted files will not work.

Thanks in advance.
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The "blue" files are compressed (Zipped).
 
Paul said:
I am attempting to copy a number of files from one directory (Novell
fileserver) to my c: drive. The files that are highlighted with blue text in
windows explorer do not appear to get copied across.

Firstly, could anyone tell me the significance of the blue highlighting.
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Files highlighted in blue indicated the file is compressed.
Secondly I believe the copying is performed by a call to a CopyFileA API ( a
hangover from our win98 days). Does anyone know why the copy of the blue
highlighted files will not work.
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I'm not sure if that is the API being used or not, it seems like
CopyFileEx would be more logical as it allows the operation to be
cancelled, which Explorer file copy supports. I can not explain why
compressed files would fail to copy. Have you tried using other copy
methods such as the copy or xcopy command from a command prompt?
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The Ansi version (the A at the end of CopyFile) is limited to 260 characters. What makes you think CopyFileA is being used.
 
Is your hard drive Fat32. The docs say all attributes are set on the destination (Fat32 doesn't have compressed attributes) except for encryption (which is closely related to compression). BTW Encrypted files are shown in Green. Try using Novell's tools (like NCopy).
 
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