I want to give you a heads up on a cool windows application for performing copy-paste, but before that let’s take a look at the typical windows copy dialog. The copy dialog will stay longer depending on the size of file being transferred. There is only a Cancel button to terminate the transfer so it makes it kinda limited, especially when transfers are interrupted and we have to redo. Think of the fuss when we are dealing with massive size transfers. Its windows, so you know what I mean.
Teracopy is a light application that helps you manage your normal transfer, with few addon buttons like Start, Skip and most interesting of all – the Resume/Pause button. Once installed, it will run when you perform any copy-paste on your windows. Teracopy is free but the pro version (with few advance functions) will cost you $14.95. Here’s a list of advantages of TeraCopy taken from the developer’s site.
- Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
- Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
- Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
- Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.
- Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.
via LifeHacker
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Posted by hongkiat in Web Tricks , at 06.02.07
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Fenton June 2nd, 2007
This is a great stuff, I luv it!
Thanks for featuring it here.
ReplyAzure June 2nd, 2007
very cool! thanks for the tips :)
ReplyAzure June 2nd, 2007
WARNING! YOU MAY LOSE ALL YOUR DATA – I have use this software copy-paste function. However, using Cut-Paste, (MOVE) (holding shift key down) from my HDD to a network computer, all my data disappeared! Uninstalling this software, the windows default cut-paste function works fine. DAMN Software!! I think the files were not actually deleted from my HDD because the remaining free space is still the same. Tried recovering data through undelete tools in vain. Tough lesson learnt the tough way. If it’s working fine, don’t fix it!
ReplyBrad June 3rd, 2007
Wow thats pretty impressive!
I was hoping there was something that would take better advantage of high level hardware and thats it!
ReplyThe Thinking Blog June 3rd, 2007
Hey you might find this application interesting as well.. it really saves me a lot of time:
http://www.thethinkingblog.com/2006/12/copy-paste-accidents.html
Replyhongkiat June 3rd, 2007
That’s a nice too. Thanks for the heads up.
ReplyBevalls July 3rd, 2007
Re : Azure’s post – I’ve been formatting my daughter’s laptop, which didn’t have Teracopy installed. Before I started I sent all her data over our network to my computer (via Windows copy procedure) to store while I formatted. This it did perfectly. On my computer I have (or did have) Teracopy installed. When I had finished setting up her laptop and began to send the data back ALL of it disappeared. (Roughly 6 Gb). Luckily I had backed up her 3,000 pictures to dvd before I did it. I’ve tried it again with some other stuff and yes, sure enough, the whole lot disappeared. I know what I’m doing when it comes to computers and believe me this stuff is TOTALLY gone. I’ve even tried a file recovery prog on both computers, absolutely zilch. Please think very carefully about this prog and back your stuff up if you want to try it.
ReplyCodeSector May 31st, 2008
Azure, if you drop files to \\server\share in the Network Places, guess what Windows reported to TeraCopy? C:\Documents and Settings\%User%\NetHood\Share on Server.
Even worse, you can’t access this folder via Explorer. Windows Search will not find files in this folder! Use command prompt or file manager like Total Commander to find your files.
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