Continue copying folder.

[AFSCrazy]

Hi all, I'll make this quick.

Last night I was copying a folder over my network (about 7Gigs) after about 5 gigs were completed, the transfer was interrupted. Is there any way to continue the transfer where it left off?

Thanks.

 

[RebateMonger]

Look up the free MS utility RoboCopy. It basically synchronizes folders. If it was to get interrupted for some reason, it won't try to recopy files that are already copied. It also won't stop if a file can't be copied for some reason. The standard Windows copy routines will quit the entire copy operation if a single file can't be copied.

 

[QuixoticOne]

Microsoft also has a free "power toy" called SyncToy that is for slightly more intelligent (relative to the USELESS windows explorer) file copying / synchronization. The new 2.0 release is hot off the presses:
http://www.microsoft.com/downl...92d8c52&DisplayLang=en

I've heard the free syncback version spoken of with esteem:
http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html
http://www.2brightsparks.com/a...are/SyncBack_Setup.zip

The same for the free DeltaCopy:
http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp

And the free UNISON:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Basically use anything BUT file explorer. Extra credit goes to whoever can tell me how to get rid of file explorer entirely in Windows XP / Vista and replace it with a better free third party program. I know there are things like Midnight Commander, et. al. but I've never noticed that they can replace the windows explorer as the "default" program that gets launched by various system menus / software dialogs et. al. I guess maybe replacing explorer.exe with whatever.exe might work, but I have a feeling it'd be hell on anti-virus software and windows updates / service packs and whatever. Just as much as Microsoft had to open up their integrated "search" offerings to 3rd party competition, they certainly should do so for their uselessly bad file manager / navigator that can't even reliably copy files in a verifiable restartable error-handled fashion, and which lacks synchronization support entirely.

 

[theAnimal]

Originally posted by: QuixoticOne

Basically use anything BUT file explorer. Extra credit goes to whoever can tell me how to get rid of file explorer entirely in Windows XP / Vista and replace it with a better free third party program. I know there are things like Midnight Commander, et. al. but I've never noticed that they can replace the windows explorer as the "default" program that gets launched by various system menus / software dialogs et. al. I guess maybe replacing explorer.exe with whatever.exe might work, but I have a feeling it'd be hell on anti-virus software and windows updates / service packs and whatever. Just as much as Microsoft had to open up their integrated "search" offerings to 3rd party competition, they certainly should do so for their uselessly bad file manager / navigator that can't even reliably copy files in a verifiable restartable error-handled fashion, and which lacks synchronization support entirely.

SuperCopier works in XP, not sure about Vista.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: QuixoticOne
Microsoft also has a free "power toy" called SyncToy that is for slightly more intelligent (relative to the USELESS windows explorer) file copying / synchronization. The new 2.0 release is hot off the presses:
http://www.microsoft.com/downl...92d8c52&DisplayLang=en

I've heard the free syncback version spoken of with esteem:
http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html
http://www.2brightsparks.com/a...are/SyncBack_Setup.zip

The same for the free DeltaCopy:
http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp

And the free UNISON:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Basically use anything BUT file explorer. Extra credit goes to whoever can tell me how to get rid of file explorer entirely in Windows XP / Vista and replace it with a better free third party program. I know there are things like Midnight Commander, et. al. but I've never noticed that they can replace the windows explorer as the "default" program that gets launched by various system menus / software dialogs et. al. I guess maybe replacing explorer.exe with whatever.exe might work, but I have a feeling it'd be hell on anti-virus software and windows updates / service packs and whatever. Just as much as Microsoft had to open up their integrated "search" offerings to 3rd party competition, they certainly should do so for their uselessly bad file manager / navigator that can't even reliably copy files in a verifiable restartable error-handled fashion, and which lacks synchronization support entirely.

Most of your complaints no longer apply to Vista. XP would end the whole batch if one copy failed. Vista can skip (or retry) a single file. Neither offer the "bang your head on a wall" method of retries though. They'll give up on a single file after a while. The error handling is fine though. Your data will never get corrupted unless there is a hardware failure. Even then you'll get a delayed write failure event indicating it.

For your extra credit though here is how you swap the shell:

hklm\software\microsoft\windows NT\current version\winlogon

REG_SZ userinit - the program that winlogon runs after verifying your credentials. You can put whatever app you want in here.

REG_SZ shell - If you want to swap just the shell and not userinit you can specify the shell here. This is what userinit.exe will execute when it's complete. Explorer.exe is the default.

Back in the 9x days you could put task manager (or whatever that windows 3.1 thing was) if you wanted. It won't put up with that crap anymore but you get the idea. CMD.exe can even be used I believe.