Orgnizing folders in hierarchy, lost files

[zillah]

Dear Experts

For my work when i tried to organize folders one inside each other in a max 6 hierarchy folders (not files),,,,and I have got many of those hierarchy not only one.

Example below of the folders names on my hard drive D

STORAGE-> BUSINESS->ACCOUNTAN-WORK-->TEMPLATES-->MISCELLANEOUS-->PAYMENTS --> Then many files (doc, excel, web pages HTML, pdf,,,,,etc)

I copied and pasted the whole drive from one laptop to another when I change a company or change my laptop or or replace hard drive with bigger size,,,etc

Recently when I checked the D drive folders I realized some files are missing ,,,,that must have happened when I copied.

Did that happen because of hierarchy chain ? How to avoid that ? Alternative suggestion ?

Thanks

 

[johnb35]

As long as you copy and paste folders, anything in side should copy over. Unless you have files/folders hidden.

 

[zillah]

I can guarantee no hidden folders

 

[Darren]

If you're doing a whole lot of data at once I've seen files just go missing as you describe. Just attempt it again and tell it to skip any files that are already there.

 

[zillah]

If you're doing a whole lot of data at once I've seen files just go missing as you describe

Exactly this is what happened and I didn't realize that till late , means I had already lost files.
I thought there is a a way / technique to avoid this from happening