Comparing Two Drives
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Does anyone have a favorite program they like to use when comparing two drives? The situation I am in right now is that I've been copying files off my desktop machine onto a WD MyBook. Not all files have been getting copied over ( verifying this by checking how many files did get copied ). Why I am asking about a tool to compare the folders of two drives is so I can tell what file didn't get copied and which ones did? Constructive suggestions are appreciated :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Does anyone have a favorite program they like to use when comparing two drives? The situation I am in right now is that I've been copying files off my desktop machine onto a WD MyBook. Not all files have been getting copied over ( verifying this by checking how many files did get copied ). Why I am asking about a tool to compare the folders of two drives is so I can tell what file didn't get copied and which ones did? Constructive suggestions are appreciated :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Why not just copy them all over again and when it asks whether you want to replace the existing files select "No to all", then it will just copy the files that haven't already been copied over :) Regards, --Perspx
"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
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Why not just copy them all over again and when it asks whether you want to replace the existing files select "No to all", then it will just copy the files that haven't already been copied over :) Regards, --Perspx
"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
I'm not getting anything like that, except for "Cannot copy file" and the whole copying process dies. I am right now painfully going through each folder to find the culprit. Found the culprit folder and there are numerous other ones to deal with. Really wish it ignore the culprit and move onto the next file :mad:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Does anyone have a favorite program they like to use when comparing two drives? The situation I am in right now is that I've been copying files off my desktop machine onto a WD MyBook. Not all files have been getting copied over ( verifying this by checking how many files did get copied ). Why I am asking about a tool to compare the folders of two drives is so I can tell what file didn't get copied and which ones did? Constructive suggestions are appreciated :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Given the date on the executable, it's been over five years since i last had to do this... but at the time, i wrote my own. You can have it if you want - there's no documentation, i lost the source, and it appears to generate binary diff files for everything that's not identical... so it's probably slow as mud. :rolleyes: Today, i'd probably use robocopy with the /L switch.
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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I'm not getting anything like that, except for "Cannot copy file" and the whole copying process dies. I am right now painfully going through each folder to find the culprit. Found the culprit folder and there are numerous other ones to deal with. Really wish it ignore the culprit and move onto the next file :mad:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
It's Windows.. don't we all wish a lot of things :( Regards, --Perspx
"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
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Does anyone have a favorite program they like to use when comparing two drives? The situation I am in right now is that I've been copying files off my desktop machine onto a WD MyBook. Not all files have been getting copied over ( verifying this by checking how many files did get copied ). Why I am asking about a tool to compare the folders of two drives is so I can tell what file didn't get copied and which ones did? Constructive suggestions are appreciated :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Is something like this what you're looking for? Regards, --Perspx
"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
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It's Windows.. don't we all wish a lot of things :( Regards, --Perspx
"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
I found the culprit folder and luckily it was an empty one from when I did my Master's Thesis.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Does anyone have a favorite program they like to use when comparing two drives? The situation I am in right now is that I've been copying files off my desktop machine onto a WD MyBook. Not all files have been getting copied over ( verifying this by checking how many files did get copied ). Why I am asking about a tool to compare the folders of two drives is so I can tell what file didn't get copied and which ones did? Constructive suggestions are appreciated :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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I found the culprit folder and luckily it was an empty one from when I did my Master's Thesis.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
:laugh: Regards, --Perspx
"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
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Given the date on the executable, it's been over five years since i last had to do this... but at the time, i wrote my own. You can have it if you want - there's no documentation, i lost the source, and it appears to generate binary diff files for everything that's not identical... so it's probably slow as mud. :rolleyes: Today, i'd probably use robocopy with the /L switch.
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
I'll have to look at robocopy. I did find the suspect folder and fortunately it was an empty folder. The My Documents folder on my C drive still has more. Wonder what the missing files are. At least now it's only 1,700 missing files and not 7,000 :rolleyes:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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:laugh: Regards, --Perspx
"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
It was a folder I set aside for any articles from ACM in 1998, and I remember something going funny with that folder.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Is something like this what you're looking for? Regards, --Perspx
"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
Yes, and Yusuf just mentioned Win Merge. I think that is the one I've used before.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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I've been using Win Merge happily for file/directory compare. ;) give it the drives you want to compare and let it do the trick for ya! By the way you can filter the output list to show only diff or only in single drive ...
Yusuf
I recall using it in the past. Great tool. Found all the files causing the copy process to halt. Fortunately they are only student labs from a class I've taught at the local community college since Fall 2006.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Does anyone have a favorite program they like to use when comparing two drives? The situation I am in right now is that I've been copying files off my desktop machine onto a WD MyBook. Not all files have been getting copied over ( verifying this by checking how many files did get copied ). Why I am asking about a tool to compare the folders of two drives is so I can tell what file didn't get copied and which ones did? Constructive suggestions are appreciated :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Araxis Merge
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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Araxis Merge
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
That looks more like what I am looking for :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Does anyone have a favorite program they like to use when comparing two drives? The situation I am in right now is that I've been copying files off my desktop machine onto a WD MyBook. Not all files have been getting copied over ( verifying this by checking how many files did get copied ). Why I am asking about a tool to compare the folders of two drives is so I can tell what file didn't get copied and which ones did? Constructive suggestions are appreciated :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Araxis Merge has a great folder compare. It's not cheap though. [Edited] Dang! Christian beat me to it! :)
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Does anyone have a favorite program they like to use when comparing two drives? The situation I am in right now is that I've been copying files off my desktop machine onto a WD MyBook. Not all files have been getting copied over ( verifying this by checking how many files did get copied ). Why I am asking about a tool to compare the folders of two drives is so I can tell what file didn't get copied and which ones did? Constructive suggestions are appreciated :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Use Robocopy (in the Windows Server Resource Kit) to perform a sync and write the results to a logfile. Then, all you need to do is read the logfile. :)
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Araxis Merge has a great folder compare. It's not cheap though. [Edited] Dang! Christian beat me to it! :)
Tom Delany wrote:
Christian beat me to it!
No worries, there's two of you guys suggesting it.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Use Robocopy (in the Windows Server Resource Kit) to perform a sync and write the results to a logfile. Then, all you need to do is read the logfile. :)
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
I'll look at that. Seems like about 99.5% of the copy/paste went through with the exception of a few folders that didn't work, and they do not contain critical data.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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I'll look at that. Seems like about 99.5% of the copy/paste went through with the exception of a few folders that didn't work, and they do not contain critical data.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Anytime. :) Robocopy is well worth taking the time to learn - it can mirror folders easily, won't abort if it can't read a file and supports incremental copying. Highly recommended. :rose:
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"