HELP: Need to Copy locked windows files

The bug in RawCopy has been identified, and a fix implemented. Tool will be updated soon.

@joakims Thanks for the update. Will wait for the patch. )

The bug in RawCopy has been identified, and a fix implemented. Tool will be updated soon.

Very good ) and exceptionally fast response !

jaclaz

I just uploaded the new version. Please let me know if it worked for you.

@joakims

Thanks alot for the quick fix. It was really helpful.

I have another query with regards to Rawcopy, is there any way I can run multiple commands in a single instance by calling the tool only once?

For Example
Is it possible to club all the below mentioned command together and fire a single instance of Rawcopy?

"RawCopy.exe C\pagefile.sys E\output"
"RawCopy.exe C\WINDOWS\system32\config\SYSTEM E\output"
"RawCopy.exe C\swapfile.sys E\output"

I have another query with regards to Rawcopy, is there any way I can run multiple commands in a single instance by calling the tool only once?

Isn't this what batch files (or other scripting languages) are made for? ?

jaclaz

@jaclaz

Batch script will call the rawcopy.exe thrice in my mentioned example. I would like to know if the same activity can be performed by calling rawcopy.exe only once, something like rawcopy.exe C\pagefile.sys C\swapfile.sys E\Output\

Thanks in advance

Such a change will not be implemented until I see a good enough reason. It's not perfect, but does the job without too much hassle.

@jaclaz

Batch script will call the rawcopy.exe thrice in my mentioned example. I would like to know if the same activity can be performed by calling rawcopy.exe only once, something like rawcopy.exe C\pagefile.sys C\swapfile.sys E\Output\

Thanks in advance

Well, it makes not any sense (to me a least) ? .

What is the actual difference? ?

The way the thingy works is to look up for the extents of a file and then copy those extents (re-assembling them if needed) to the output directory with the same file name and extension.

It inherently works one file at the time, so it would anyway be run three times "internally" instead of externally through batch, possibly with the complication that you wouldn't know if there is an issue which file caused it unless joakims adds some specific error reporting code.

Just in case you missed them 😯
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

Cheers @joakims )

jaclaz

If you need a CLI tool to copy open/locked , you can try Rclone but today many GUI tools are available to copy open/locked windows files easily like Goodsync and Gs Richcopy 360  , both can make this operation easy and quickly in few clicks