The removal of "/E" was a very good idea but doing so changed nothing. And more: Executing:
Code:
[C:\]Timer on & *copy /S /H /F /G /K /X * T:\ & Timer Off
Timer 1 on: 22:18:58
[C:\]
The "Timer Off" was never executed and the "T" drive was empty.
Putting the copy into a batch file again preceded by a "Timer On" and followed by a "Timer Off" did nothing useful; again the "Timer Off" never got executed.
And entering the "Timer Off" command
while the copy was actually executing gave the following:
Code:
[C:\]Timer on & *copy /S /H /F /G /K /X * T:\ & Timer Off
Timer 1 on: 22:18:58
[C:\]Timer off
Timer 1 off: 22:19:35 Elapsed: 0:00:37.30
That is approximately 37 seconds to do absolutely nothing.
And just to be complete about it although it shouldn't make any difference "T" is a subst'd drive to "X:\14-08-23" where "X" is the external hard drive.