Windows – Robocopy copies folders but not files

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I'm using robocopy on a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP2 machine with the following options:

robocopy W:\ E:\old_files\daten1\ /R:1 /W:1 /MIR /COPYALL /ZB /DCOPY:T /MT 50 /LOG:E:\old_files\copy_w.txt

robocopy copies all of the folders, but at the destination they appear empty without the files. I cannot find any errors in the log file. Security permissions are OK.

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If that is the command line you're using then your problem is most likely the /MT 50. I suspect you meant /MT:50 to have 50 threads rather than files called 50.

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Maybe the user that run the command don't have permission on the destination server to create the files with the permissions needed.
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Maybe there are permissions/ownership in the source for local users. So they don't exist on the destination directory.

Run the copy from the destination.

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