Check Back In A Couple Days

I'll blog again as soon as this little operation finishes....

posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:35 PM by scott

Comments

Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:25 PM by Vikram

# re: Check Back In A Couple Days

hahahahahaha, I thought they will improve the time remaining calculation in vista, but I guess they can still improve it
Friday, September 07, 2007 2:13 AM by Dan

# re: Check Back In A Couple Days

It's amazing that 12 years after windows 95, copy-move operations are now slower.

I use Teracopy, worth a look:
http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.asp
Friday, September 07, 2007 4:00 AM by Daver Lee Lewis

# re: Check Back In A Couple Days

Have you tried?

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979

Friday, September 07, 2007 6:10 AM by Josh Stodola

# re: Check Back In A Couple Days

On Windows XP 64-bit, I moved 300GB worth of data in a couple hours...
Friday, September 07, 2007 7:05 AM by Sahil Malik

# re: Check Back In A Couple Days

Quite terrible that we need a KB article + hotfix to fix DAMN file copy operations.
Sunday, September 09, 2007 1:04 PM by Roberto Bonini

# re: Check Back In A Couple Days

Scott Hansellmann has alist of alternatives to copying via the explorer.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/XCopyConsideredHarmfulRobocopyOrXXCopyOrSyncBack.aspx
Monday, September 10, 2007 5:13 AM by Glyn Simpson

# re: Check Back In A Couple Days

Has it finished yet? :-)