REQ: skip/log unreadable/damaged files in queue

[ParanoidAndroid]

After browsing lots of previous threads, I find there's a lot of interest in this feature, however it's not likely to be implemented any time soon. So maybe one of you skilled coders out there is interested in doing this as a plugin.

You see, I just realize my harddisk would not read certain files any more so I decided to transfer everything to a new one before total drive failure became imminent. The few damaged/unreadable files are spread over the entire disk and folders so I have no idea what files might pop up an error message upon copying. Since by far not all files are equally important I also do not intend to recover any of those damaged files but only salvage what's possible.

Thus I attached an external drive and added all files to the queue since copying 1.5 TB of data can take a while. When I came back after 20 or so minutes of course there was already a damaged file halting the queue claiming under Win7: "file can not be written" and under Win XP (I attached the HDDs to another computer for testing purposes) "file can not be read". So I stopped the queue and tried to copy the file manually but it took almost 5 min for the error message to pop up which suggests that the HDD does several tries of accessing the file before giving up.

It would be really cool if the queue would continue copying once an error message pops up and write this message into a log file. Of course all side-effects would be at the user's risk. Thx.

[iana]

There's a wcx plugin that does this
Sure Copy (it copies good files and logs unsuccessful copy attempts)
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/WCX_COPY.html

if U want to copy partially damaged files try
Bad Copy (wfx plugin)
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/badcopy_1_0_0_4.html

or NSCopy (wcx)
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/wcx_nscopy.html