Copyhandler: where have you been all my life?
One thing that really pisses me off with Windows is it’s illogical implementation of coping files across. A copy should be queued by which ever sort order is selected, for instance if you’re sorting files alphabetically, then it should copy 0-z in order, or if it’s by date, copy by date, etc.
Another thing that annoys the crap out of me is when it reaches a problem, it just bombs out, and that’s the end of it. It would only be too sensible to at least allow you to continue/ignore when a problem occurs.
I’ve came across Copyhandler, and best of all it’s free, this cool, FREE, application has the ability to queue, throttle, and continue file copies, a full features list can be found here. You can also enable it as a shell extension, meaning it can hijack the Ctrl-C control and allow it to take matters in its own hands. Once you’re done with it you can simply disable it and it goes straight back to the Windows copier.
As the time of writing it seems to be updated frequently, I have came across a few bugs such as not interpreting the correct size of a shared external hard disk, but I am sure this will be fixed in sooner dates.
Also the sheer speed of file coping is amazing, I can almost get full bandwidth when copying between two network shares, this is another problem where the Windows copier fails. My usage habits of Copyhandler will mainly be for large file copies, it can get a bit in the way when copying alot of small files around, it would be good if you could specify the max amount of simutanious copies at any one time rather than queuing them.
This application will definately be installed on all machines I work from.
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