Does anyone know if it work well across the LAN? I need to move tons of files from one PC to another.. will CH or such util make the job easier?

Thanks!

LordieLordie

@pschroeter: Woah, you just changed my life.

jonny6pak

@harshmellow: I know Vista isn't for everyone, but it has what you seek. When copying a batch of files it will ask if you would like to replace the existing file or not. You can check box that will make your selection to not replace effective across all other conflicts. It's a nice little feature.

jonny6pak

I'm using Supercopier2 as the replacement of the default Windows copying. It's got some nifty features like queue lists, so you won't accidentally copy files from/to the same drives at the same time, which would drastically slow down your copying efforts.
[supercopier.sfxteam.org]

Though I'll check out Teracopy and Copy Handler now as well. From first glance at screenshots, it seems to have about the same features, the latter being a bit weird looking. I love little software like this that improves your Windows tenthousandfold!

Trinsec

@harshmellow:
You kdo now that holding shift key and clicking no performs no to all? I do agree that I can't understand why it does not have a button.
This article talks this.
[lifehacker.com]

pschroeter

I have been using YCopy ([www.ruahine.com]) for quite a while and I am happy with it. Not too feature packed, but works for me.

Chinmay

I'm not sure I wanna install a copier for occasional use. Large file moving is not something I do regularly. But I would like a top 5 file browser that "might" include this type of fonctionality.

PC_Pal68

But does it still have the flying paper animation? I don't know if I can copy files without that...

What I want (but have yet to find) is something that would simply add NO TO ALL on the dialog box in Windows. What idiot thought they should put YES TO ALL but not NO TO ALL?! If there was such a thing, it would allow you to copy any files that are not already there. I do use synching programs that do this sort of thing, but it would be nice if it was just in the OS.

Then again, if Microsoft put all these DUH features in their products, where would that leave the thriving freeware community...

harshmellow

CH was flaky when I used it last, and like above I use TeraCopy without issue.

Maybe I can install it elsewhere and test it again...

jdw242b

Tera copy has worked great for me, it even takes fragmented files and makes them less fragmented as it copies them, best copier in my opinion.

daybringer

@harshmellow: Re: "No to All": Just hold down "shift" whilst clicking "No". This does "No to All".

SEMW

I was using TeraCopy on XP before I found the more powerful and more integrate-able Copy Handler, but Vista's copying options are much better than XP's (and faster, once they got the slow network file transfers fixed), so I don't see the need anymore.

joelena

@jonny6pak: It took them long enough!!

@pschroeter: WOW. Maybe I should have searched for NO TO ALL...Gina is YEARS ahead of me! I could swear I have looked up NO TO ALL on teh Google. I must have found some other shiny thing that got my attention... Thanks for the tip!!

harshmellow

Just learned another keyboard shortcut! I'm also one of those people that thought I knew them all. Though I also just learned here a couple weeks ago that CTRL+C will copy the contents of a MsgBox even though Windows gives a disaproving beep.

Will Copy Handler also handle errors better than Explorer, in a similar manner to Teracopy? That being, instead of stopping the whole works, and abandoning the rest of the copy (giving you no idea what what copied because Explorer doesn't do it in any logical manner), logging the errors and continuing with the rest of the job.

johnsmith1234

@LordieLordie:
I use TeraCopy at work constantly, and at home to a lesser extent, to move multitudes of files across NFS & SMB shares, and it works flawlessly. My guess is that nearly all of these work just as well.

tehmiller

I have been trying to use ch to copy about 1TB of data between some drives and found it to be buggy as hell. Not a big fan.

cbiggins

Somebody was copying anime. ^-^ lol. I'll try this program later. =/ Bandwidth is full. I think my bandwidth leech is on myspace again.

Megan Fox iz Hot ^-^ -ph15h

what no linux/mac/be os version?

/joke

Gonzie

whoa! I didn't know the shift key trick. and I thought I knew all the keyboard shortcuts out there! thank you @SEMW, @pschroeter

amrich

Oh, man.

My problem is that I have 2 computers separated by about 900 miles, and I have to copy several hundred megabytes from one machine to the other on a regular basis. Due to things like wireless going down or VPN going down, I need to be able to resume copy operations and throttle my bandwidth usage (so I don't tie up the entire pipe at my site.) Because of company policy, I can't:

1. Set up an FTP server
2. Use P2P programs (even "private" P2P programs)

I was hoping that Copy Handler would be a solution, but I have to admit that the web site has given me a very negative opinion of the product and the developer... in one forum thread, he responds angrily to a rude poster. True, you going in and flaming a product on its support forum is rude, but responding to the rightfull frustrated user with "you're not my boss, and I don't recall you paying for this" doesn't instill great confidence.

Oh yeah, and the FAQ says that it deletes files that were skipped during a move, entirely because he was frustrated with manually deleting unmoved files. If that's what he considers a safe, well designed programming technique, then you're better off avoiding this program and going with one written by people with a "safety first" approach to programming.

If you want my advice, don't rely on this guy or his product.

TomXP411

yeap, yeap, i just checked vista. it's in there. i just keep finding more and more vista does...

rand0mCreep

@TomXP411: I suggest Robocopy.

[en.wikipedia.org] It has most of what you need. And there's a GUI available too.

azpat

Another vote for Supercopier2, that has been a wonderful program. The ability to pause downloads, have it only overwrite files if they are different, and a host of other features has made me a happy camper with it. Plus, if there are errors, it doesn't cancel the whole thing, it pops up a message, or you can tell it what you want to do. I have it put problem files to the bottom of the list. Then when it's done, and it has errors, I can see what and why, and take care of them.

Peter200lx

I find it oddly fitting that the file being transferred is an episode of Fullmetal Alchemist. "Humankind can not gain anything without first giving something in return. That is the First Law of Equivalent Exchange..."

aviazn

I used to use Teracopy, but I found it didn't play well with Vista. Maybe they've upgraded. And yes, Vista includes some newer file management stuff by default.

JamesF

DO NOT USE

Look what Copy Handler can do for you!

"Q: Program deleted all files that I skipped during move operation!!"
"A: Yup. That happens in this program now. At first it was a feature - I was angry when moving data to some folder with files, skipped and had to manually remove source folder with files I skipped. However now it is a problem, since a few people lost some of their files because of that. I am planning to fix this when I have more time."

This is the same problem it had before a long time ago, and I'm appalled that it STILL does this. It did it with other language filenames before when it couldn't deal with Unicode, but it also did this frequently when tranferring files across a network.

I repeat, DO NOT USE.

Chef

@Chef: Wow! Now, THERE'S a programmer with an attitude!

IAmMarchHare

@jonny6pak: This is one feature I like about Vista. [OK, don't everyone have a heart attack b/c I complemented Vist :)] However, I just happened to be copying some files around last night, and I noticed it isn't consistent. I had opened an Explorer window from the Mobile Center b/c I am cleaning Notes from a PocketPC, and it never offered to rename it. Not sure how to do this reproducibly (I was just trying to get files copied for now), but it is something to not take for granted. YMMV.

IAmMarchHare

@azpat: Thanks. I'll have to check it out.

@Chef: That's pretty much my chief complaint. If you can't trust the programmer, you can't trust the program.

TomXP411

For some reason, after I upgraded AVG it gave me some kind of Trojan warning on TeraCopy. I couldn't find any info on it at the time so rather than take a chance I uninstalled TeraCopy.

Looks like others have had this problem too: [is.gd] (blog.codesector.com) and it may have been fixed by now.

jdueck

I second the robocopy recommendation. Particularly its /eta, /r, and /w options. It'll make you look and feel like a pro in no time.

PS there is a GUI front-end to robocopy but I would not recommend it.

jarmod

@pschroeter: Thank you so much. Thank you so, so much.

mDuo13

Did someone hear about KillCopy?
I use it for couple of years now, and I'm really like it - not even one crash during all the years!

vvvlad

Nice FMA episode 1 you got copying there :D

kunoichichicky

@Chef: Thank you very much chef... I was so close to installing this program, teracopy has let me down a couple of times recently (especially if wireless drops) so I shall give supercopier2 a try

falter

I'll join the mob recommending robocopy. Back in the bad old days before DFS, I would use it to move the entire contents of file servers to new servers. Today I use it to copy large files between computers over flaky WAN connections. When I use the /z option, if the connection drops, it just waits a few seconds and then tries to pick up where it left off. While /z slows it down somewhat due to increased overhead, I need the reliability more than I need the speed.

I've been using robocopy for years without any problems, and without it, some aspects of my job would be extremely frustrating, if not impossible.

Dave-Farquhar

@azpat: I would second robocopy.

nsr81

Or maybe that's just one of the screens on the program's website...whoops... xD

nmaster64

Damn, we need a Top 5 for copy-paste replacements now...I don't know which to choose!

Adam's an anime fan? w00t.

nmaster64