How do I STOP a robocopy that is in progress?

Question

I am using robocopy to copy a large amount of files.

I find that there is an issue of some kind and I need to stop/quit the process.

How do I do this?

I did an internet search and I keep getting the same response about hitting pause, each time reciting the same line verbatim. But I'm not looking to pause the command, I want to outright stop it, cancel it, quit it.
How do I STOP robocopy once it has begun?

Answer 1

@Marscaleb

If I understand, you are looking for a way to cancel the job, if got a error after start copying the files.

If you are looking a way manual, just press Ctrl C to abort the script.

If you are looking a way to inclued on your script, you can include a action on script like taskkill

 taskkill /im robocopy.exe /f

something like that>

@echo off
setlocal

set source_dir=C:\source
set dest_dir=D:\destination

set retry_count=3
set retry_delay=3

echo Starting Robocopy...

robocopy "%source_dir%" "%dest_dir%" /R:%retry_count% /W:%retry_delay%
if %errorlevel% neq 0 (
  echo File copy failed after %retry_count% retries.
  echo Waiting %retry_delay% seconds before aborting...
  ping -n %retry_delay% 127.0.0.1 > nul
  echo Stoping operation...
  taskkill /im robocopy.exe /f
)

echo Robocopy complete.

I hope this is work for you.

Regards