Jon Galloway

Whats wrong with just using robocopy? Why the need for a gui?

So... would you suggest the beta or the latest RTM? Being a sucker for shiny objects I'd naturally lean toward the beta.

And that leads to question #2 - have you tried the portable version?

@Eddie It's not just the GUI, it's the shell integration. If you want to type your robocopy command every time you copy a file, knock yourself out. I tried it for a while and it got pretty old. I like robocopy for scripts, but it's not very practical for day to day file copying.

If you want efficiency you can't beat Total Commander. Once you're used to it using the keyboard, by the time you move your hand to grab the mouse I already selected the files I want, started the copy file and I'm on my way to doing other things. They should really make a video about it...

Great tip Jon...

Jon,

A few weeks back, I ran into an XP SP2 error "Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service" while trying to copy my large VHD file from one drive to the other. Installing Terra copy helped in copying the file.

Raj

I have yet to switch to Vista, by the way, so let me get this straight.  I need to download a utility program in order to copy files efficiently?  The OS can't figure out how to do it right?  IMO, this blog post is the strongest evidence that Vista is a ginormous piece of shit that could only be compared with Windows ME.

I am building a new machine right now.  It will run XP 64-bit, and I will have no worries and no learning curve.  Thank you very much.  Maybe when Windows 7 comes out I will consider upgrading.  'Til then, my computer will smoke ANY Vista machine for breakfast.

C'mon Microsoft...

@Josh

Windows XP file copy doesn't restart or pause the copy process, either. I'm writing about Windows Vista because it's the current version of Windows. Vista's file copy was pretty slow before SP1, but that's mostly fixed in Vista. I'm not writing about XP because I'm not writing about any software that's 7 years old, be it IE6, .NET 1.0, etc.

You haven't tried Vista? Your uninformed criticism is not all that valuable, is it?

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Two Essential Tools for Vista

Paid for and downloaded Teracopy 1.22 and very disappointed.  It averages 500Mb per HOUR to a Snap drive. (drag and drop did 8Gb in 45mins) Maybe drive to drive would be faster but not over the ethernet.  Also it boasts to continue after any file discrepancy.  But even after opting for "skip all" it stopped on a duplicate file.  Very frustrating after leaving it run for 24 hours and only 5% copied.

Lastly, sent email for tech support and no response after more than a week.

By all accounts, I'm the only person on Earth who has not experienced any real issues with Windows Vista. It's a shame really because Vista's overall experience is so much better than any previous Windows operating system. Yet not a day goes by without

TeraCopy and DirectFolders

I am looking for (or wondering why MS has not included this in their Vista OS) a utility to manage specific folders and sub-folders that will not allow duplicate files (exact bit compare, not just file names)to be copied into the folder or it's sub-folders.

It would have to manage the designated folders and keep a checksum and other info about each file in a database. When ever a file is copied, it checks for a duplicate and either warns with options or defaults to put a shortcut to the file rather than copy in the duplicate.

I have thousands of .jpg files on thousands of folders from 10 years of computing, moving from old to new PCs, creating backup or temporary folders, etc with many files now residing in numerous folders many with different names only. To manually clean it up would take months. A utility or "filter" put on a folder and sub folders to restrict duplicates would be an awesome addition. Maybe one already exists out there?

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i was trying to move a directory, and xp kept stopping the copy at "file not found".  teracopy took a lot longer than normal on that directory, but got the job done nicely.

cheers. many thanks for recommending.

I also ran into the XP error "Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service" when copying ISO files (same with many large files.) Tried Teracopy, worked for 20 minutes then failed each copy with the same error.  Used RichCopy so you can turn of buffering and use sequential access - THE BEST!