"Preparing Paste Information" when copying files on server using RDP

You can prevent this from happening by making sure you are not sharing drives via your RDP connection.

When connecting to a server via RDP:

• Click Show Options
• Go to the Local Resources tab
• Click Settings
• Click More
• Unselect all drives

This worked for me and got rid of the "Preparing paste information" dialog.

I often have to copy files on machines through remote desktop. I also have drives mapped since I often need to pull these files to my machine so turning the mapped drives of is not really a solution for me.

What I found out is when you open 2 explorer windows and drag the files from one folder to another they will get copied without the annoying dialog opening. (also when copying to your local mapped drive)

My main problem with this dialog is that when I press cancel, some seconds later it will pop up again and again. Sometimes I have to click cancel 5 times before it is actually cancelled