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Just something I find myself wondering now and don't want to test it myself...

Does anyone happen to know if I click on the "pause the operation" (pause icon) button on a copying window in Windows (10) Technical Preview, can I then remove the external drives I'm copying from/to, provided I plug them back in and make sure they're both being recognized before I click resume?

Because I'm copying a little over 500gb and it claims it will take a little more than a day, and I'd like to shift my laptop to a different location in about 2hrs.

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Based on my and OP's experiment, the pause function releases the files and hence one can disconnect the drive involved in the operation. It also works with large files and networked storage.

This feature is first introduced in Win 8. More on that can be found in this superuser thread.

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