Remote desktop aborts copy when copying text to clipboard

Question

When I copy a file from Windows Remote Desktop to my local machine, if I click on Ctrl-C (copy to clipboard) or copy to clipboard with mouse, the file copy aborts!

The file is large and I can't restrain myself from copying to clipboard for so long :)

Any fix to this problem or other recommended workaround?

Answer 1

Yes, this is a known limitation to MSTSC and there is no workaround that I know of (except using some other remoting / file sharing solution - e.g.: OneDrive, Dropbox etc.).

Answer 2

You can get around this problem by using 7-zip or any other compression utilities that can create archives with volumes. For example you can compress a large file into a number of 10MB (or smaller) volumes. If the download is disrupted at least you have the already downloaded volumes. You will have to copy the rest again until all is transferred. When you have all volumes downloaded just un-compress the volumes and the original large file should be restored. Regards, John Zatyko