How to find missing file after a copying large folder

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I am backing up my Win 7 folder just before moving to WIN 8. The folder is 65G in size. I just copy and paste from my laptop hard drive to my external USB drive. I started the copying just before I went to bed last night. This morning I saw a pop up windows saying that 12 files cannot be copied because the path is too long. The option is "skip' or 'Cancel'. I took the skip option and the copy job completed. But it does not tell me the name of the 12 files that I skipped.
Now my problem is how do I found out which 12 files are missing in my backup.
I know that I can do the copy paste again and watch out for the error message. But it is a waste of time sitting in front of the screen. That was why I do it over night.
What is the best way to do this kind of work other than using some backup software.
 

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  • OS
    win 8 pro
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    DELL
    CPU
    i5
    Memory
    6g
    Graphics Card(s)
    intel
If you use built in robocopy mirror option it will wiz through files like lightning as it won't copy files that exist and tell you the missing ones
 

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  • OS
    win 8 pro
I have used TeraCopy with the more [information please] button pressed for such projects -- it will list both success and failure. I found it works best when explorer.exe is not being heavily used during TeraCopy's project.
 

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