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I'm currently trying to fetch old files off of a box of floppy disks and many of the files fail on the first try but copy successfully after a few tries, I'm assuming because the internal cleaning mechanism is doing its job or something.

I'm using robocopy to copy the files, but no matter what I set the /r: flag to, it only tries once. I've used robocopy in the past to read files off damaged optical media and skip the errors after only a couple of tries, but that was a while ago.

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    Did you find the culprit for this? I have same problem on Windows 2019 Server. – Nenad Feb 09 '21 at 14:20
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    I did not, I ended up writing a quick script to run robocopy multiple times instead – austinian Mar 10 '21 at 19:25
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    It seems this is a widespread issue in Windows 10/Server 2019: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/144678/robocopy-doesn39t-retry-on-open-files-any-more.html – Taylor Buchanan Nov 18 '21 at 19:10

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