My backups have always been done manually. Open two windows of File Explorer, one the source the other destination, then copy/paste, etc.

Three questions, please.
1. Will KR work from my user account? Some comments above indicate not. All my data to be backed up is in my user’s account My Documents.
2. Can I specify a folder(s) in My Documents to NOT be backed up?
3. Will KR work overnight if the computer is in Sleep mode? (That’s a dumb question. Am sure the answer is no. But let me ask.)

BTW, Karen’s Replicator runs on Win11. Still a terrific program. For those of you who experience files not saved, be sure that a destination folder has been created beforehand in the destination drive. Karen does not copy contents of a folder if there is no destination folder specified to save the contents to. Karen can save to a cloud based folder but be sure the path is specified correctly and works. However, transfer speed is determined by the connection speed. Uploads speeds via cable are generally 20% of the download speed unless you have fiber where upload and download speeds are the same speed (symmetrical). I save to a local NAS daily and weekly to a virtual drive in the cloud.

WHAT WAS HAPPENING?
After updating my laptop to Windows 10 V22H2 (probably one of the last Windows 10 updates, but hey — ya work with whatcha got!), the Replicator desktop app would not start, even though the job PTReplicator was running in Resource Monitor. I looked for, found and installed a more recent version of Replicator (3.7.5 — v3.7 had been installed on the laptop prior to the Windows update), but the problem persisted.

HOW DID I FIX IT?
I ran across this blog post, and followed the link to MajorGeeks.com, which automatically downloaded Replicator version 3.7.6.
By this time I had multiple versions of Replicator installed, so I uninstalled all of them (using the uninstall.exe program in the app folder, since Replicator doesn’t show up in Windows Add/Remove Programs), including the Replicator folder itself.
I did this based on the Q&A following the post. There were known issues with the desktop icon not reflecting the correct path to the PTReplicator.exe…so I thought, “well, let’s start from the top!”
I did a complete reinstall of v3.7.6, found Replicator in the Windows Apps list (it was NOT listed under “recently added”), and started it. It started right up, with the saved jobs from v3.7, from before the Windows 22H2 update!
I love Replicator. It’s so straightforward, and does it’s job so well.
From back in the old days, I remember something espoused by PC Magazine — “little utility apps that do one job and do it extraordinarily well”. KarenWare apps are like that, a little utility app that does one job and does it extraordinarily well.

Check the properties of the desktop icon to be sure it is reflecting correctly the location of the .exe file. Try navigating to Karen’s PTReplicator.exe in Program Files/Karen’sPowerTools and right click on the file and choose open. If the program does not open there, then probably related to permissions. If you are normally logged in on a user account, also try the above logged in as an administrator. I prefer Karen to run first thing or overnight.

Thanks for letting me know Tim, glad it helped out 🙂

I thought it had worked but it doesn’t actually copy anything. The program runs but no files are copied and it lists every file as an error. 🙁

More Info:

The Windows 8.1 and the Windows 10 systems were both formatted and reinstalled from scratch (not a image). Both systems worked great until windows update caught up and that is when Karen would slow down. The Windows 7 system was not touched.

Windows 8.1 system (AMD FX 8350, 16 gig dual channel ddr3) has Quickbooks, Office 2013 ContraCam and other office programs
Windows 10 system (i7. asrock mb, 12 gig triple channel ddr3) is Plain Jane with nothing more than Directory Opus, and a few other small programs.
All my systems are on 24/7, are rebooted weekly, up to date on Window Updates and use Windows Antivirus (yes tried with that off too, no difference). All systems use SSD Window boot drives and have numerous 1 – 4 terabyte drives in each. One of the main backup folders is 51.4 Gig. 32,036 Files and 915 Folders (sata drive to sata drive on same system), it took Directory Opus @ 2 Minutes to Synchronize, Karen ran for 24 hours and did not finish, showing numerous ” Error: Could Not Open Destination File (Error 3 – The system cannot find the path specified.” errors.

Resources are fine and Karens shows nothing strange CPU 0%, Memory 2.4 Meg, Disk 0-.1 MB/s, Network 0 on both systems. and there is nothing running hard or strange on any machine to throw any red flag up. I know these two systems very well as they are my personal daily drivers.

Next week I have to make my rounds to my clients to check their backups, will report is any of them are having the same issues that I am having at my local businesses. Would not be surprised if it is something I did but the fact that the problem showed up after doing a Windows update bothers me.

Mark,
I suspect something else is happening that is hogging resources. Did you by any chance use task manager to see what resources were in use at the time? I have not seen this on any of the multiple machines using both Win7 and Win 10. However, I have Karen setup to be the first task in the morning for most of the machines that are turned on in the morning or not left on overnight.