4TB RAID share saying not storage with only 1.5GB used!

It happens on personal, corp, everything, other machines… etc. I found this can happen as stated above. I could use scp or such, but I’d like it to be easier to “sync”. I’ve tried all the things about (except robocopy) to this point.

Here’s what worked for me…

  1. Open PowerShell 7.x.
  2. New-SmbMapping -LocalPath R: -RemotePath \\IP-or-ServerName\fileshare -UserName MyUserId -Password 'MyPassword'
    3. xcopy "C:\Users\MyUserId\MyFolderOfFoldersAndFilesSource\" "R:\MyFolderOfFoldersAndFilesTarget\" /e
  3. And enter D for Directory when prompted by xcopy.

Haven’t had a failure yet of massive directories since doing this approach vs. Explorer. Woo hoo! I can access the files and edit / save from apps just fine. It was the initial copying that was killing me. I had to put my 1990s DOS hat on to get it to work. :innocent:

It was fast and worked. I was able to xcopy a 25GB (including some 2-5GB single files) directory in just a few minutes! Awesome.

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