Access denied moving folders from Dropbox to Desktop

Question

Simply put, I'm trying to move two folders from my Dropbox folder to my desktop.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it says, "Access is denied".

This is the code for the batch:

@echo off
:start
move "C:\Users\x\Dropbox\MC_Servers\ec2\Server\backups" "C:\Users\x\Desktop\Server Backups\"
move "C:\Users\x\Dropbox\MC_Servers\ec2\Server\logs" "C:\Users\x\Desktop\Server Backups\"
timeout /t 7200
goto start

I have tried running as admin, changing UAC to th lowest setting, and changing folder permissions.

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Run your batch using RoboCopy. It will try more often and the access denied, if it is caused by Dropbox using the file, will eventually release it. Even with RoboCopy, Dropbox will sometimes hold files in use even after not reading it, so your mileage may vary. You may need to use a tool such as handle to close the handle a process is using to keep the file open.