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Dwedit

Posted on 12-08-07 08:17 PM

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We all know that Windows Explorer sucks at copying files, especially how it randomly pauses in the middle of an operation (oh noes! The source file is READ ONLY!), then dies after one file fails to copy.

So I was wondering, what's a really good program to copy a bunch of files from one place to another?

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Posted on 12-08-07 08:21 PM

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C:\windows\system32\xcopy.exe

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Posted on 12-08-07 08:22 PM (rev. 2 of 12-08-07 08:23 PM)

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You really really do NOT want to use XCOPY. It dies after a large number of files, which is far worse than Windows Explorer.
(at least it behaved that way in Windows 98 and Windows 2000...)

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News to me... then, I never tried to copy a really large amount (>10000) with it...

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Posted on 12-08-07 10:11 PM

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Install Cygwin and use the cp command?

If that goes slow (or fail) too, you can really only blame on Windows itself then.

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Posted on 12-09-07 02:46 AM (rev. 2 of 12-09-07 02:50 AM)

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Cygwin's overkill for simple tasks; install MSYS instead

I doubt they'd make any differences, all the programs ask the same API to copy files. (edit: on second thought, I believe there are separate APIs on Windows NT for copying files depending on the subsystem being used (Win32 for all of the above suggestions), they probably translate the subsystem file-copy API to the native (mostly undocumented) API anyhow; if you really want to test the effectiveness of one versus another, install Services for Unix and see if the cp command there (using the Interix subsystem) has similar behavior).

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