MS Made Copying files on Windows Easier, kind of
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I was copying a large amount of files from one drive to a USB flash drive on a Windows 7 box. I selected all the folders and files, copied and pasted to the target drive. The system gave me an estimate of 23 hours to finish the copying. At the point when roughly 80% was done I had to leave so I decided to cancel it at that point. Later when I was back I wanted to continue the copying. I was lazy so I selected all the folders and files again (even though 80% of them were already copied), copied and pasted to the target drive. I expected to see a message box showing "there is already a file with the same name in this location", and I would utilize the GREAT improvement MS had made over XP that I could just select "Don't copy" and "Do this for the next xxx conflicts" so the rest of the files would be copied. Instead, I was greeted by this message: "There is not enough space on xxx. You need an additional 22.0 GB to copy these files", with a "Try Again" button and a "Cancel" button. I think they should give the users another button "Try to copy anyway" so they can copy as much as they can. In my case the free space is large enough to hold the rest of the not-yet copied files! Besides, sometimes people want to stuff as many files as they can on a drive. All my files are small ones, the remaining space is not big enough for all the files selected, but it can hold thousands of these small files.
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I was copying a large amount of files from one drive to a USB flash drive on a Windows 7 box. I selected all the folders and files, copied and pasted to the target drive. The system gave me an estimate of 23 hours to finish the copying. At the point when roughly 80% was done I had to leave so I decided to cancel it at that point. Later when I was back I wanted to continue the copying. I was lazy so I selected all the folders and files again (even though 80% of them were already copied), copied and pasted to the target drive. I expected to see a message box showing "there is already a file with the same name in this location", and I would utilize the GREAT improvement MS had made over XP that I could just select "Don't copy" and "Do this for the next xxx conflicts" so the rest of the files would be copied. Instead, I was greeted by this message: "There is not enough space on xxx. You need an additional 22.0 GB to copy these files", with a "Try Again" button and a "Cancel" button. I think they should give the users another button "Try to copy anyway" so they can copy as much as they can. In my case the free space is large enough to hold the rest of the not-yet copied files! Besides, sometimes people want to stuff as many files as they can on a drive. All my files are small ones, the remaining space is not big enough for all the files selected, but it can hold thousands of these small files.
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I was copying a large amount of files from one drive to a USB flash drive on a Windows 7 box. I selected all the folders and files, copied and pasted to the target drive. The system gave me an estimate of 23 hours to finish the copying. At the point when roughly 80% was done I had to leave so I decided to cancel it at that point. Later when I was back I wanted to continue the copying. I was lazy so I selected all the folders and files again (even though 80% of them were already copied), copied and pasted to the target drive. I expected to see a message box showing "there is already a file with the same name in this location", and I would utilize the GREAT improvement MS had made over XP that I could just select "Don't copy" and "Do this for the next xxx conflicts" so the rest of the files would be copied. Instead, I was greeted by this message: "There is not enough space on xxx. You need an additional 22.0 GB to copy these files", with a "Try Again" button and a "Cancel" button. I think they should give the users another button "Try to copy anyway" so they can copy as much as they can. In my case the free space is large enough to hold the rest of the not-yet copied files! Besides, sometimes people want to stuff as many files as they can on a drive. All my files are small ones, the remaining space is not big enough for all the files selected, but it can hold thousands of these small files.
Looks like you made the same mistake that many of us made: you expected windows to get better, not worse. Anything that isn't a security update, and that has been checked to contain nothing but security updates, should be ignored.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I was copying a large amount of files from one drive to a USB flash drive on a Windows 7 box. I selected all the folders and files, copied and pasted to the target drive. The system gave me an estimate of 23 hours to finish the copying. At the point when roughly 80% was done I had to leave so I decided to cancel it at that point. Later when I was back I wanted to continue the copying. I was lazy so I selected all the folders and files again (even though 80% of them were already copied), copied and pasted to the target drive. I expected to see a message box showing "there is already a file with the same name in this location", and I would utilize the GREAT improvement MS had made over XP that I could just select "Don't copy" and "Do this for the next xxx conflicts" so the rest of the files would be copied. Instead, I was greeted by this message: "There is not enough space on xxx. You need an additional 22.0 GB to copy these files", with a "Try Again" button and a "Cancel" button. I think they should give the users another button "Try to copy anyway" so they can copy as much as they can. In my case the free space is large enough to hold the rest of the not-yet copied files! Besides, sometimes people want to stuff as many files as they can on a drive. All my files are small ones, the remaining space is not big enough for all the files selected, but it can hold thousands of these small files.
loyal ginger wrote:
"There is not enough space on xxx. You need an additional 22.0 GB to copy these files", with a "Try Again" button and a "Cancel" button.
Use TeraCopy for Microsoft Windows - Code Sector[^].
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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loyal ginger wrote:
"There is not enough space on xxx. You need an additional 22.0 GB to copy these files", with a "Try Again" button and a "Cancel" button.
Use TeraCopy for Microsoft Windows - Code Sector[^].
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Beat me to it. :)
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Beat me to it. :)
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
Beat me to it. :)
I like it so much I have bought a couple of licenses for it.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I was copying a large amount of files from one drive to a USB flash drive on a Windows 7 box. I selected all the folders and files, copied and pasted to the target drive. The system gave me an estimate of 23 hours to finish the copying. At the point when roughly 80% was done I had to leave so I decided to cancel it at that point. Later when I was back I wanted to continue the copying. I was lazy so I selected all the folders and files again (even though 80% of them were already copied), copied and pasted to the target drive. I expected to see a message box showing "there is already a file with the same name in this location", and I would utilize the GREAT improvement MS had made over XP that I could just select "Don't copy" and "Do this for the next xxx conflicts" so the rest of the files would be copied. Instead, I was greeted by this message: "There is not enough space on xxx. You need an additional 22.0 GB to copy these files", with a "Try Again" button and a "Cancel" button. I think they should give the users another button "Try to copy anyway" so they can copy as much as they can. In my case the free space is large enough to hold the rest of the not-yet copied files! Besides, sometimes people want to stuff as many files as they can on a drive. All my files are small ones, the remaining space is not big enough for all the files selected, but it can hold thousands of these small files.
Since I got a NAS, I had to move a bunch of GB into it... I've found that the best way to do it is using FTP (FileZilla in my case). In case any failure happens you can see it into the summary at the end and you can restart it at will, pause, overwrite rules...
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loyal ginger wrote:
"There is not enough space on xxx. You need an additional 22.0 GB to copy these files", with a "Try Again" button and a "Cancel" button.
Use TeraCopy for Microsoft Windows - Code Sector[^].
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Great software! I use it at work where I have tons of files to copy (that is our versioning system, zips on a server).
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