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Robocopy permission denied

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Problem

Robocopy is preinstalled with Windows 7. I've used it many times in the past. I tried to copy a folder to a remote share with As a result I get permission denied. Using explorer I can copy files to this share. I've opened a command prompt with administrator permissions with the same result. The sha…

Error Output

robocopy c:\source "\\server\share\path" /s /r:2 /w:2`

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Fix for: Robocopy permission denied

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Quoted from here : In my case, I started out with full control on both the source and destination shares. The problem was that Robocopy was resetting the ACL on the destination share to a null value (nobody has permission) before it began recursing …

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