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If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Something you may have found while performing maintenance in Windows is that some files or folders simply cannot be opened or copied. It has a few commands to create a full or incremental backup but these are not required for copying in use or locked files. Do you mind trying to package it as a lib so I can use it in a C program for example? For such a powerful tool PC Hunter is remarkably simple to use, run the portable bit or bit executable, click on the File tab and use the folder tree to locate the file you want to copy.

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No promises on either front. One example is the System Volume Hoboclpy folder found in the root of your hard drives which cannot be opened. Friday, January 28, Hobocopy Lives!

Although it still works fine, HoboCopy itself was discontinued by its author in favor of ShadowSpawn, which is below. Shadow Copy uses the Volume Shadow Service allowing you to copy locked and in use files from one location to another with the aid of a simple user interface.

Good to hear, yeah By using this form you agree with the storage and handling of your data by this website. I did that but was unable to find a way to give it a feature request label.

Hobocopy and Windows 10

Newer Post Older Post Home. Windws is quite straightforward, simply supply a source path and name of a single file and a destination folder argument to the command, make sure to include quotes if spaces are involved:. This makes it very easy to use and allows you to copy whole folders full of locked files with minimal fuss.

Anonymous August 10, windowx 1: Help of any sort including bug reports! Anonymous January 30, at 5: To use it, open a Command Prompt or cmd on Windows XP and direct it to the directory where you have extracted the Hobocopy files to by using the cd change hobocpoy command.

I want to do an incremental includes a statefile, as said in the usage section of the project pagerecursive copy of the folder, meaning that it only copies the files that are new to the destination folder and includes all subdirectories of the chosen folder, not just the files.

Back up Files on Windows with HoboCopy

Austin 2 years ago. I created a batch file to copy flash videos in the temp folder. More advanced backup options should be considered in future releases, so as to increase its value on the software market.

ShadowSpawn is command line only and relies on the end user having knowledge of other copy tool commands aindows well as its own. This is necessary if you want to run HoboCopy because it is only running wwindows a command prompt and the command prompt cannot start it without knowing where it is located.

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There are a few tick box options below to copy subdirectories, overwrite existing files, ignore errors and parse junction points. Running from the command line is supported but all that really does is open the user interface with predefined from and to locations set and automatically starts the copy.

Kia ora from Aotearoa New Zealand. If you doubleclicked on the HoboCopy icon in the explorer, it would only hpbocopy up for a split-second and vanish after that, and if you started it with the command without directing the prompt to its location it would only give you: One issue is selecting more than one file will grey out the option although you can still duplicate the whole folder by right clicking on it in the folder tree and using the Copy to option.

Request to blog more acknowledged. To accomplish that, my command has to be this: Run the Extents executable and press Open to look for the in use file. Anonymous January 31, at 3: It does the job! Just wanted to say thanks!

7 Tools to Copy Locked or In Use Files

Various methods to unlock these files so you can gain access and manually copy them would include trying an unlocking tool like Unlocker. Anonymous February 1, at 5: I recently became reacquainted with Hobocopy because I needed a copy program that could handle locked files.

I definitely would like to get Hobocopy lib'd up - it's been on my mental list for a long time.