Redirected output to a 16TB SSD drive does not list files or anything. Works fine on 4TB HD

Eugene Gough 196 Reputation points
2022-11-19T17:37:10.57+00:00

Using XCOPY to copy directories and files to a 16 TB SSD. The actual copy and directory creation works fine. The output is redirected to the SSD as well but while the redirect file is created, nothing is put into it. See the two examples given, the one to drive O: is the failing one, the 16 TB SSD drive. The one to drive M: works fine. M is a 4 TB external USB hard drive.

Xcopy D:\FinleyDownload\*.* O:\tstxcopy\ /E /V /I /C /G /H /Y /R /J > O:\tstxcopy\xcopyfilelist.txt ' this fails to list the files in the redirect file on O:.  
  
Xcopy D:\FinleyDownload\*.* M:\tstxcopy\ /E /V /I /C /G /H /Y /R /J > M:\tstxcopy\xcopyfilelist.txt ' This works, putting both the files and the list on drive M:.  
  
Xcopy D:\FinleyDownload\*.* O:\tstxcopy\ /E /V /I /C /G /H /Y /R /J > M:\tstxcopy\xcopyfilelist.txt ' This places the files on drive O:  and puts the redirect info on drive M:.  
  
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  1. MotoX80 36,406 Reputation points
    2022-11-20T00:28:43.76+00:00

    You probably created a file (not a directory) named tstxcopy on the O drive somehow.

    Open a command prompt and paste in these commands. Please share the output.

    o:  
    cd \  
    dir tst*  
    md tstxcopy  
    echo testing > tstxcopy\xcopyfilelist.txt   
    echo testing > tstxcopy\test.txt  
    dir /s tstxcopy  
    
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