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Windows 7 "Backup completed but some files were skipped"

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Mar 15, 20269908 views
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I set up Windows 7 Pro to backup my files to a network path (woohoo!) and chose to backup "data for newly created users, libraries", and my user folder (no system image). All went fine (although the first backup took ~12 hours for some ridiculous reason), but at the end it gave me a message that "Y…

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Fix for: Windows 7 "Backup completed but some files were skipped"

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I've had the same error message with error code 0x80070002/3. The question is: why is MS Backup trying to backup non-existant data and then reporting that it cannot reach it? The reason is related to the way user Libraries (new feature in Windows 7)…

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