Copy failure following Windows 10 version 1803 update (April 2018)

If you are running on Windows 10 and have applied the Windows 10 version 1803 update (April 2018) you may experience a backup problem where the copy session appears to stop or loop.

This problem has been resolved with Double Image 7.0.59 release (July 2018).

Starting with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, April 2018, files being scanned on the target drive that have a special character in the first position would cause a scan loop. The special characters are any character that is not alphanumeric.This condition would only occur when copying to or from a device over a network and while running on Windows 10.

Double Image now creates extended paths for network files (which normally would not be required unless the path name was greater in length than 255 characters). By creating extended paths, this tells Windows 10 to not fiddle with the path name and by default to always permit maximum path length sizes up to 32,767 characters (less a few characters for the extending codes).

Microsoft broke several things in the file shell with Windows 10 version 1803 update. Our job, put a band-aid on it.

Upgrade to the latest version of Double Image and this problem is resolved.