Moving files around when you only have a couple of gigs of HDD space left isn't very fun.

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Moving files around when you only have a couple of gigs of HDD space left isn't very fun. It's taken me over 20 hours, so far, to move a fraction of the 60gigs from one folder to another (external) HDD. And I have hundreds of gigs to go.

Hopefully the slowdown is only because I don't have enough virtual space available on my HDD and as I clear space the transfer will become more efficient , but until then, this is crazy.

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Nick McIntosh said…
Are you just using Windows Copy? The major limitation is it is single threaded. You might try Robocopy for multithread.
February 12, 2018 at 5:06 PM
Jason ON said…
Yeah, just Windows copy. What's Robocopy? Is it a program, a Windows app?
February 12, 2018 at 9:59 PM
Nick McIntosh said…
It's a Microsoft developed utility that they kind of dropped development on a while ago. But it works beautifully for what you're trying to do.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/d/0/fd05def7-68a1-4f71-8546-25c359cc0842/UtilitySpotlight2006_11.exe
February 12, 2018 at 10:10 PM
Jason ON said…
I did look up Robocopy after posting last thinking, why don't I just look it up? Thanks for the links though. Will take a look in the morning.
February 12, 2018 at 10:27 PM
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