Better file copy windows

I know from bitter experience. Injecting these into one compressed file ZIP or 7Z will by-pass most of these problems, usually. Richcopy is not seeing my Network. Running Windows Any ideas? This is correct, FastCopy will not replace the shell. Once again, bad interface, excellent features. I always install Teracopy but it freezes so often and crashes out entirely extremely frequently. But the newer betas and the older stable..

I use it as a backup but could never depend on it primarily. Honestly for any important copy I just use commandline these days. Hopefully that saves someone some headache. Also, version 2. Tried FastCopy and it blitzed it. I also like the CRC check-sum comparison being displayed during verification. I had a quick look at the developers website. The blog has progress notes on version 3 still in alpha. One of its features will be: Unlimited number of files, the internal file list stored on disk instead of memory.

When using RichCopy, you need to tune it by adding threads. While it supports multi-threading, the default is 1 thread. I am running a copy right now using 10 threads. Multi-threading really makes the difference. I have i7 with 8gb ram but it takes like 2 days or so to transfer 1tb of data, tried with super copier and teracopy.

All these programs were not able to copy I am assuming you have included the time it has taken you to select all your files to backup in that 1 hour 30 minutes?

IObit PCTransfer is a personal settings and files backup and restore tool and is no quicker at simple copying than anything else. So ensuring a highspeed bus like USB 3. I have over external HDDs which i have to regularly have to update for our clients. With over GB of mp3 files this takes some time so any speeding up of this would be great. Would i be best to go with something like these programs tested or is there a better machine that could handle copying 2 HDDs at once at good speeds?

Just gave Teracopy a go based on the reviews found here and elsewhere. Click, delete, goodbye. Back to the boring yet reliable Windoze copy dialog, I guess. I use i7 with 16G ram so it should not be hardware problem. Version I used is 2. I suppose it depends what speed your USB 3 devices are and whether Teracopy is working slower than Windows or other file copy tools you may have tried.

Try another free portable file copier software Exshail CopyCare from below site. Main feature is Preview list of files before copying with seven options below. Good test. Some just write the actual values to the destination and not the data of the source.

Great Article. Not long ago I had to do some large file transfers. I tried several tools, but most gave inconsistent results. I finally settled on RichCopy 4. However, I did notice that for disk to disk local copies I had much better performance with only 1 thread and increasing the cache size, but not to the max.

I was wondering if you used standard program settings for the procedures or if you tried optimizing the settings to improve performance. Reliability is more imporntant to me. You copied many files very quickly and deleted the original files. But… if copied data is broken or loss, what the…. Copying nn same disk Fast Copy was faster than Windows 8 when copying 25GB mixed files 1 vs But copy 3,5GB photo file from one disk to another disk Fast Copy was slower than Windows8 vs Watch out with Extremecopy.

There were files missing on the second harddrive without any warning or message. And with Teracopy or Windows copy, you have data lost, lost without any error message if error, no control and error message when error and the user presume all is ok. Same with lot of software mentionned here too. When you come back, you will have the job done. Imagine you trying to copy gigabytes of files and come back in 2 hours and see that message, would you be upset?

After answering that second question, I sat there for over 60 minutes and then windows could not copy another file because of long…file…name…. Then, the whole process was stopped by windows.

Talk about being mad…. Would you be mad, too? I was. So, I found the answer for us. You can walk away for 2 hours and you are sure when you come back, all files are deleted. No question will be waiting for you. The job will be done. Please seriously consider my recommendation before you, my friends over the net, waste 5 hours like me in the past.

Have a good day and please help others…Thank you very much in advance. But only the speed…. Copying a huge number of small files is always going to be MUCH slower than a small number of huge files, due to the overhead of creating directory entries.

TeraCopy dies when you select a large number of files from a folder to copy. Selected , files to copy and had to kill the process after 5 minutes of waiting for it do do something…. It takes a long time for it to process a large number of files. At first it looked like FastCopy was doing a great Job but after seconds it shows major drawbacks in performance, my bet is the verify option!

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Download ExtremeCopy Standard. It also has several options for adding context menu entries and extensive command line options, although something missing is a pause or skip button. Watch out for the weird uninstaller where you have to rerun the setup exe. Multiple file copy test 1: seconds ISO copy test 2: 86 seconds Network copy test 3: 79 seconds. Download FastCopy. FF Copy is relatively simple copying tool where you select or drag and drop multiple selections of files and folders onto the window and they will be copied or moved to the destination you select from the button or drop down.

There are no other options to speak of and this tool probably functions best when you want to quickly send files from multiple locations to several different folders and then let it process them.

Multiple file copy test 1: seconds ISO copy test 2: 86 seconds Network copy test 3: Refused to copy the folder, gave an error every time. Download FF Copy. KillCopy can place copy and move entries onto the context menu and can also be setup to be the default copy handler replacing Explorer. Multiple file copy test 1: seconds ISO copy test 2: 88 seconds Network copy test 3: 78 seconds.

Download KillCopy. This copying tool is a little different than the others here because it was written in Java meaning there are different versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX, although this does make for a hefty 20MB installer.

Standard pause and skip buttons are available. Multiple file copy test 1: seconds ISO copy test 2: 89 seconds Network copy test 3: seconds. Download Mini Copier. A large window will alert you to any file collisions etc. Multiple file copy test 1: seconds ISO copy test 2: 87 seconds Network copy test 3: seconds. Download Nice Copier.

PerigeeCopy has several useful functions built in such as replacing Explorer for default file operations, using or ignoring the recycle bin when deleting files, leaving errors until the end of the copy process and 6 different overwrite options.

The main copy dialog is quite informative but there are no extra features like pause, queue or skip for that extra bit of control. Download PerigeeCopy. Fastcopy is amazing! It is reliable in all circumstances. It gets the theoretical maximum speed from all devices. Fastcopy has a portable version.

Ray, Thanks for the wonderful article! I understand you review quite a bit of software, but I would love to see an updated review of this category running Windows But some others have newer versions. I like the interface of Teracopy and had used that for some years now, but Fastcopy is my go-to now until I find a reason to change. Its GUI is a little boring, but gets the job done nicely. I did some preliminary tests a while back with Windows 7 and 10 for something else, they were almost identical in copy speed.

The biggest differences will likely be any major changes to the copy tools themselves. Why is Killcopy the winner for me? I suggest you to look at the results in the comparisonlist in the article. The result of killcopy is always almost at the top and in any condition. It can move, copy, overwrite,… I can even suggest you to change some settings in Killcopy. Killcopy will increase the speed of the copy to the theoretical maximum speed of the hardware.

We continiously do competitions between engineers during datamigrations. The Killcopy users allways win. New colleagues tries always to convince the older guys. Killcopy can be used as commando based and not only with a gui. It is even available as portable edition. Good luck everyone. As far as I know. Killcopy works with any existing Windows which I can remember. I think that i have used Killcopy on about different systems in different situations and on all kind of operating systems.

As far as i know most programs are struggling with enormous quantities of small files. Like 10 1Kb files and many copy programms also struggles with many large files like multiple 10GB files. Killcopy has currently never failed for me. Have these been improved significantly? Last time I checked, Windows 10 copy performance was somewhere in between Windows 7 and Windows 8. Good post! It can also pause, skip and verify copied files using CRC32 in addition to dragging and dropping files onto the copy queue….

Do you have a list of free copy programs that can run as a service on a server Windows or ? Does any one these tools has the ability to pause and resume copying after system restarts? We will update this sometime in the future, but to be honest, I doubt there will be much difference in how they perform against each other. Have you tried timing the transfers manually? The copy dialogs might not be completely accurate with their information. Absolutely yes.

These files are partition images splitted. Has anyone done this before for this problem? I use this tool. This tool is one of the best tools. This tool copies the your files very easily. Please tell me that youre heading to keep this up! Its so excellent and so important. I cant wait to read much more from you.

I just feel like you know so much and know how to make people listen to what you have to say. This blog is just also cool to be missed. Great things, really. Supercopier was dropped by its author. Instead the author focused on UltraCopier instead of having 2 similar products.

For anyone using Teracopy or Fastcopy I recommend my program: Dualcopy. Dualcopy add favorites, recent menu and monitoring of file managers to the great speeds of Teracopy and Fastcopy.