Operations engine error handling

A computer-readable storage media having computer-executable instructions for performing steps comprising:

• receiving a request to perform a file operation for a plurality of files, the file operation including one of copying, moving, recycling, and expunging the plurality of files;
• pre-calculating potential errors that will result from performing the requested file operation for the plurality of files, the potential errors selected from the group consisting of a potential error for recycling a system file, a potential error for expunging a system file, a potential error for recycling an executable file, and a potential error for expunging an executable file;
• discovering a potential error;
• evaluating if the potential error is catastrophic:
• after the step of pre-calculating, when the potential error is not catastrophic, proceeding with processing the requested file operation, wherein processing the requested file operation includes performing one or more processes and functions necessary to carry out the requested file operation;
• encountering an error that results from processing the requested file operation for one or more files of the plurality of files while processing the requested file operation;
• and
• placing information for the error in an error queue while continuing to process the requested file operation for a remaining one or more files of the plurality of files.

A method for performing file operations on a computer system, the method comprising:

• receiving a request to perform a file operation for a plurality of files, the file operation including one of copying, moving, recycling and expunging the plurality of files;
• processing the requested file operation by performing one or more processes and functions necessary to carry out the requested file operation;
• encountering an error while processing the requested file operation for one or more files of the plurality of files;
• placing information for the error in an error queue while continuing to process the requested file operation for one or more remaining files of the plurality of files;
• and
• providing an indication to a user that the error was encountered and the error queue contains error information for the error while continuing to process the requested file operation for the one or more remaining files of the plurality of files.