Microsoft KB Archive/104684

Shell Creates a Zero-Byte File When Copying to a Full Disk PSS ID Number: Q104684 Article last modified on 11-11-1993 PSS database name: O_MSDOS

6.00 6.20

MS-DOS

= SUMMARY =

If you use the Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 or 6.2 Shell to copy multiple files to a floppy disk, a 0-byte file may be created if the floppy disk becomes full before all selected files are copied. In this situation, no files are lost; however, the file that did not copy remains on the source disk.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Steps to Reproduce Behavior
  Select multiple files that require more than one floppy disk to store.   Press F8 to copy the files.   In the To: box, type either A: or B:, depending on the floppy disk drive you are using. Choose OK. When the floppy disk is full, you receive the following message: The disk is full.  Skip this file and continue. Cancel the operation.   Change disks and press ENTER. 

Shell begins copying files again. If you examine the first disk, you find a 0-byte file with the filename of the last file that Shell tried to copy, even though that file is still on the source disk.

Additional reference words: 6.00 6.20 zero-byte

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