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Error 16: ERROR_CURRENT_DIRECTORY

Windows Error Code Lookup: Decode Windows error codes: Win32, HRESULT (0x80070005), NTSTATUS, Windows Update, msiexec and blue-screen stop codes, with what to check next.

Paste the number from an error dialog, event log, script or setup log: 0x80070005, 80070005, -2147024891, 1603, 0xC0000005, a stop code like 0x7E, a name like E_ACCESSDENIED, or a few words. You get every way Windows could mean that number (an HRESULT often wraps a Win32 error, so 0x80070005 is "Access is denied" too), its parts decoded, and what to check for the common ones. Names and messages come from the Windows SDK headers and Windows' own message tables; see Microsoft's System Error Codes and [MS-ERREF] for the full references.

Try: 0x80070005, 1603, 0xC0000005, 0x800F081F, 0x8024402C, 0x7E, access denied

0x00000010 = 16

Win32 error 16 (0x10)

ERROR_CURRENT_DIRECTORY

The directory cannot be removed.

As an HRESULT (HRESULT_FROM_WIN32): 0x80070010

If it's a robocopy exit code

Fatal error: robocopy didn't copy anything.

  • 16 Fatal error: Robocopy couldn't do the job at all: an invalid option, or no access to the source or destination. Nothing was copied.

Robocopy's exit codes are bit flags, not Windows errors: 0-7 mean it worked. Robocopy Command Builder.