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A word of warning about TerraCopy- it can cause annoying errors when copying. I transferred many gigs of data from one computer to another over a LAN, some file

A word of warning about TerraCopy- it can cause annoying errors when copying. I transferred many gigs of data from one computer to another over a LAN, some files transferred fine, others looked like they copied ok, but were actually 0kb in size on closer look. I'm not sure if it was a bug in that particular version or with the setup being used, but once I uninstalled TerraCopy the errors ceased.

Havoc 13y ago
TC occasionally bombs out if you queue too much stuff - i.e. it just closes ... and thus looks like its done when really its not. Maybe thats why you got 0kb files. Win7 + copying is decent enough for most non-lan purposes though. Speaking on copying failing - I stopped using TotalCommander for that reason. It just says disk full (not true) out of the blue. Messaged the author & got some bullshit response.
- patrickk 13y ago
  You would think that queuing lots of files would be where TerraCopy really shines- faster copying combined with a nice view of the copy queue, with percentages and so on. I was disappointed to uninstall it because it worked well for normal copying on the same pc and the UI is very informative, but the bog-standard windows copying functionality can handle as much stuff as you can throw at it which is the whole point of a copy tool in the first place.
- noinsight 13y ago
  > Win7 + copying is decent enough for most non-lan purposes though. It's not. If a single file fails on Win7 it cancels the whole operation (how is that possible on an OS released in 2009?! Fixed in Win8 though, that will never be used in corporations though), it fails if the path becomes longer than 255 characters etc. Robocopy works but I'd much rather use rsync which is not available on Windows unless you use hacked up versions with cygwin. A good reliable copying tool is sorely missing. Sure, there's all sorts of alternatives but I'm not willing to use it unless it's open source. The other comment on this thread talking about FastCopy got me curious, I'll have to try that (it's open source!).
  - tucaz 13y ago
    I'm trying swiss file knife for multi purpose file handling (including a somewhat delta copying) and it's proving to be a good tool.
  - jebblue 13y ago
    >> unless you use hacked up versions with cygwin I use standard Cygwin and rsync and ssh when I have to use Windows and use them to backup Windows to a Linux box and it works great.
  - Havoc 13y ago
    >If a single file fails on Win7 it cancels the whole operation No it doesn't? It pauses it & gives you an option to retry / cancel. So if another app is using the file you can close it & continue.
- adamzochowski 13y ago
  The only time I had Total Commander stop a copy like that was with bad usb hubs/drives that can't sustain fast writes and need to be down throttled. This is the reason why tcmd has option to change how it handles drives, the size of the chunks it reads and writes, and the speed at which it does it.
cpbotha 13y ago
FastCopy does everything TeraCopy does, but faster and better: http://ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en http://ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en (this is the only tool I miss when working on Linux)
- eps 13y ago
  On XP - perhaps, but on Windows 7 and up FastCopy and TeraCopy are both slower than or marginally comparable to robocopy, which is a built-in bulk copying tool. Microsoft did an amazing job with it in W7, robocopy is really damn fast.
  - InTheSwiss 13y ago
    I have used Robocopy to move over 300TB of data round recently and not a single error. Robocopy is at UNIX level stability. Really a kick ass tool.
  - cpbotha 13y ago
    Are you sure about that? It's hard to find benchmarks, but things seem to point in the direction of fastcopy still being faster. See e.g. http://www.sepago.de/e/helge/2011/05/17/fastcopy-free-file-copy-tool-runs-circles-around-explorer http://www.sepago.de/e/helge/2011/05/17/fastcopy-free-file-c... (robocopy comparison at the end) Would be great to see benchmarks of course! :)
    - eps 13y ago
      Yeah, positive. Just ran a quick test copying 3GB .iso from local HDD to USB3 drive. fastcopy - 152 sec (average of 3 fastest runs out of 4) robocopy - 65 sec Incidentaly, tried the same with my backup program and it's 62 seconds, faster than both.
- noinsight 13y ago
  Thanks for mentioning this, I've been looking for such a tool for a while now. It's open source too (a requirement for me)!
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Havoc 13y ago

TC occasionally bombs out if you queue too much stuff - i.e. it just closes ... and thus looks like its done when really its not. Maybe thats why you got 0kb files. Win7 + copying is decent enough for most non-lan purposes though. Speaking on copying failing - I stopped using TotalCommander for that reason. It just says disk full (not true) out of the blue. Messaged the author & got some bullshit response.

patrickk 13y ago
You would think that queuing lots of files would be where TerraCopy really shines- faster copying combined with a nice view of the copy queue, with percentages and so on. I was disappointed to uninstall it because it worked well for normal copying on the same pc and the UI is very informative, but the bog-standard windows copying functionality can handle as much stuff as you can throw at it which is the whole point of a copy tool in the first place.
noinsight 13y ago
> Win7 + copying is decent enough for most non-lan purposes though. It's not. If a single file fails on Win7 it cancels the whole operation (how is that possible on an OS released in 2009?! Fixed in Win8 though, that will never be used in corporations though), it fails if the path becomes longer than 255 characters etc. Robocopy works but I'd much rather use rsync which is not available on Windows unless you use hacked up versions with cygwin. A good reliable copying tool is sorely missing. Sure, there's all sorts of alternatives but I'm not willing to use it unless it's open source. The other comment on this thread talking about FastCopy got me curious, I'll have to try that (it's open source!).
- tucaz 13y ago
  I'm trying swiss file knife for multi purpose file handling (including a somewhat delta copying) and it's proving to be a good tool.
- jebblue 13y ago
  >> unless you use hacked up versions with cygwin I use standard Cygwin and rsync and ssh when I have to use Windows and use them to backup Windows to a Linux box and it works great.
- Havoc 13y ago
  >If a single file fails on Win7 it cancels the whole operation No it doesn't? It pauses it & gives you an option to retry / cancel. So if another app is using the file you can close it & continue.
adamzochowski 13y ago
The only time I had Total Commander stop a copy like that was with bad usb hubs/drives that can't sustain fast writes and need to be down throttled. This is the reason why tcmd has option to change how it handles drives, the size of the chunks it reads and writes, and the speed at which it does it.

cpbotha 13y ago

FastCopy does everything TeraCopy does, but faster and better: http://ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en http://ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en (this is the only tool I miss when working on Linux)

eps 13y ago
On XP - perhaps, but on Windows 7 and up FastCopy and TeraCopy are both slower than or marginally comparable to robocopy, which is a built-in bulk copying tool. Microsoft did an amazing job with it in W7, robocopy is really damn fast.
- InTheSwiss 13y ago
  I have used Robocopy to move over 300TB of data round recently and not a single error. Robocopy is at UNIX level stability. Really a kick ass tool.
- cpbotha 13y ago
  Are you sure about that? It's hard to find benchmarks, but things seem to point in the direction of fastcopy still being faster. See e.g. http://www.sepago.de/e/helge/2011/05/17/fastcopy-free-file-copy-tool-runs-circles-around-explorer http://www.sepago.de/e/helge/2011/05/17/fastcopy-free-file-c... (robocopy comparison at the end) Would be great to see benchmarks of course! :)
  - eps 13y ago
    Yeah, positive. Just ran a quick test copying 3GB .iso from local HDD to USB3 drive. fastcopy - 152 sec (average of 3 fastest runs out of 4) robocopy - 65 sec Incidentaly, tried the same with my backup program and it's 62 seconds, faster than both.
noinsight 13y ago
Thanks for mentioning this, I've been looking for such a tool for a while now. It's open source too (a requirement for me)!
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