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> 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 possib
by 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 agoI'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.