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How to abort robocopy on first error

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When using robocopy windows utility, what flags do I set so that robocopy aborts on the very first error it sees, similar to xcopy /dry command? I need to mirror two dirs, and on occasion some files would be locked. I do not want robocopy to continue trying to copy files, or override the files that…

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Use the Retries argument and set it to 0: Robocopy will not retry if an error is found and the command is aborted. What you are experiencing is the fact this option is set by default to 1 thousand, or something similar. As an added note, you can sav…

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