Transferring files from one location to another can be a time consuming task in the Windows operating system. The speed of the transfer surely depends mainly on the hardware of the computer system especially the speed of the hard drives but also system memory, cpu and which storage interface the devices are using. Windows itself does however add at least one limiting factor to the equation: Sequential file transfers. This means that all files are transferred to their new location one after the other which can bring down the transfer speed tremendously.
Rich Copy is a file transfer software that has been in internal use by Microsoft for quite some time. The developers have now made it available for public use. The file transfer software program adds many new features to Windows Explorer file transfers including parallel transfers (also called multithreaded transfers), pausing and resuming the file copying process and a plethora of additional options.
The main difference between Rich Copy and third party tools like TeraCopy is the missing Windows Explorer integration of Rich Copy. It is an external file transfer program with an unbelievable set of options. To name a few of the advanced options that are available:
- Set thread count and cache size for transfers as well as process priorities
- Set or remove file attributes automatically
- Selecting specific errors to immediately stop the copying process
- Include or exclude specific files from being copied specifying file names, file attributes and / or dates.
- Running commands before and after the file transfer
- Extensive file operating logging
- Different file transfer modes and additional copying restrictions based on security, size or time stamps
Rich Copy has been primarily been designed to speed up but also give more control to file transfers in the Windows operating system. Users who simply want to speed up the original Windows Explorer copying process are better of using file transfer software like Teracopy or Fast Copy which integrates itself nicely into Windows Explorer and replaces the original file transfer dialog.
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I didn’t know about File Transfer Softwares
Take a look at http://www.copyhandler.com/!
From the homepage:
“Copy Handler is a free software for Windows systems, which allows you to take full control over the file copy and move operations. Program is highly customizable and fully integrates with the operating system. In addition, Copy Handler offers many advanced options such as task queuing, filtering files according to specific criteria, pausing and resuming copying files operations, changing the copying parameters on the fly and in many cases also offers a significant acceleration of the entire copying files”
I’ve been using KillCopy for years. I’ll test richcopy but killcopy would be tough to give up. It has autoresume even if either computer crashes and with the ‘standart’ skin shows the KB rate per second average of the d-load. I like the queuing feature in copyhandler but killcopy is so light weight I doubt either will win me over. Also it can replace the default copy feature so copy\paste use it instead of the Windows copy. Simple and very customizable.
http://killprog.narod.ru/killcopye.html
-Joe
I am a ExtremeCopy big fan .