Questions tagged [teracopy]
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Copying many files without stopping on errors on OSX
I need to copy several Gb from an external HD to my main HD and some files will cause errors. If I do this with the finder, it will stop on the first error.
Is there a way to copy everything no matter ...
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Over gigabit connection, Teracopy does 31MB/s, but Windows 8 does it at ~109MB per second?
I got my brain-melting first taste of Gigabit networking today, between my 2011 MacMini and Windows 8 Pro desktop connected via Cat.5e to Linksys WRT320N(sporting dd-WRT).
After making sure that the ...
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How to make Teracopy close its window after transferring a file?
For some reason after I transfer a file with TeraCopy it won't automatically close the window when the file was succesfully transferred.
Does anyone know how to change this, since I can't seem to ...
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Alternative to TeraCopy that preserves directory timestamps?
Using TeraCopy, the file timestamps are preserved. However, if you copy a large nested directory, the modification date of some (but not all) of the directories are lost (replaced by the current time)....
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Make Teracopy the only choice and remove the default win 10 copy application
I Screenshot of Teracopy showing whenever I copy any file
I want windows 10 to automatically choose teracopy ,Instead of asking me everytime I try to copy any file or move any file. Windows 10 should ...
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Teracopy not being used as handler for copying files onto phone's storage
I am running Teracopy on Windows 7-64bit. It works perfectly in all conditions other than when I am copying from/to my phone's storage. In this case, the default copier is being used. The default ...
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Teracopy: "File read" vs "OK" status
When copying with Teracopy, the Status column sometimes reads "File read" and sometimes "OK", along with a green check mark.
The files marked "File read" seem to have been copied fine (I tested a ...
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How can I ask TeraCopy 3 to retry all failed copies?
When I use TeraCopy 3 to copy files, sometimes some file copies fail:
How can I ask TeraCopy 3 to retry all failed copies at once?
On TeraCopy 2 I can retry all failed copies with:
Click on ...
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TeraCopy error message: "Operation did not complete ... file contains a virus", yet my antivirus did not prompt me about any detected viruses
When I was moving a certain file, TeraCopy outputted this error message: "Target: Operation did not complete because the file contains a virus."
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My antivirus (avast!) did not alert me of ...
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TeraCopy not being used as default copy handler
I have TeraCopy installed on all my computers and it is set to be the default copy handler. However, since my last OS reinstall, it does not seem to want to act as the default. Seems about 80-90% of ...
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How much faster is copying files though TeraCopy vs. Windows 7 native copy function? [closed]
Teracopy's official page says "TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce the seek times.".
Wikipedia points to some tests:
In a test conducted in 2008 by lifehacker, Fastcopy was ...
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TeraCopy does not start copying automatically
Whenever I copy or move files using TeraCopy I have to hit the start now button. Is there a way to start it automatically?
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What does the grey progression bar represent in TeraCopy?
I use TeraCopy with Windows 7. What does the grey progression bar represent in TeraCopy when copying files?
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Force Applications to use Teracopy
I use Teracopy everywhere
I really like it and have found it to be stabler/faster/better than vanilla copy.
However when using certain applications, namely 7zip for one, (I am certain there are more,...
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Does overwriting a file consumes extra space?
I have 1gb available space in my HDD which is composed of mainly movies and I want to overwrite files with same names and file size. The file that I want to replace is a 2gb movie and I want to ...
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How can I configure TeraCopy so that it retries copying a file in case of a CRC mismatch?
How can I configure TeraCopy so that it retries copying a file in case of a CRC mismatch?
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teracopy and archive bit?
I like how when I do a copy and paste in windows, teracopy intercedes.
can I get it to do what /M of xcopy does and /A ?
turning off the archive bit at source end.. after a copy. and only ...
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How can I configure TeraCopy 3 so that it copies small (< 10 KB) files faster?
TeraCopy 3.6 copies small (< 10 KB) files very slowly (10 files ~= 3 secs):
I didn't have this issue with TeraCopy 2. How can I configure TeraCopy 3 so that it copies small (< 10 KB) files ...
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How do dynamic buffers reduce seek times?
From Wikipedia:
TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times.
I have no clue what that might mean. Which buffer is being dynamically adjusted? How does that reduce the seek time?...
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Teracopy 3.1 flashes terminal window after finishing file transfers
I am using Teracopy 3.1 on a pc running Windows 10 x64.
After finishing any file transfers, Teracopy flashes a terminal window. How do I make it stop doing this?
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Teracopy not copying all selected files and folders, only one
I've installed teracopy on a fresh Win10 Install. I've opened it and selected it as the default copy manager. I've even restarted.
When I select 7 folders to copy, teracopy charts all files in the ...
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Why did Teracopy show 100% progress so early?
I am trying to copy data from CD to my pen drive using Teracopy (software).
Even with data still left to copy, it started showing 100%. Why so?
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How can I set up some timeout in TeraCopy so that it skip files on which it gets stuck?
TeraCopy sometimes gets stuck on some problematic files, as shown below. How can I set up some timeout in TeraCopy so that it skipped the problematic files and other file transfers are made?
I use ...
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Cancelling a queued file on teracopy
This is the scenario I find myself in often:
Try to copy a very large file to a folder using teracopy. After a minute, try to copy a tiny file to the same folder.
Tera copy queues the tiny file and ...
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Why is the size of a folder different when copied to a different location on the same disk?
I copied a folder to a different location on the same disk, and I noticed that both its size as well as the size on the disk is different in the new location.
So, I tried using TeraCopy to copy the ...
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how to improve speed of File transfer operation
I'm using windows 7 64 bits with the following performances:
CPU Specification : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200U CPU @ 1.60GHz
L1 Data cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte ...
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Discrepency in number of files transferred in Teracopy
Over the past few days, I've been using Teracopy to transfer over a large number of files and folders from a small flash-drive (well, 32gb) , to an external hard-drive (4tb).
However, I noticed that ...