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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: IPAndrews on June 27, 2005, 10:47:27 am

Title: File manager w/ copy queues
Post by: IPAndrews on June 27, 2005, 10:47:27 am
Does anyone know of a free file manager utility that will enable me to queue a list of directories to copy from A to B. Showing which operations have been completed and allowing me to start/stop/pause the copy operation at will?

Sort of a like a file manager equivilent of GetRight or NetVampire or a nice FTP client?
Title: File manager w/ copy queues
Post by: redsniper on June 27, 2005, 11:13:29 am
:wtf: How much stuff are you copying?
Title: File manager w/ copy queues
Post by: karajorma on June 27, 2005, 11:34:34 am
That's something I wouldn't mind having either. Windows copying abilities leave much to be desired. As soon as a dupicate is found your choices are to cancel the copy operation, overwrite anything that has the same filename or sit around taking notes of all the files that failed to copy over.

Surely there must be something better?
Title: File manager w/ copy queues
Post by: achtung on June 27, 2005, 04:50:26 pm
Here (http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/browse/0,cat,1502,sortIdx,1,pg,1,00.asp) is a list of file management programs it's from pcworld so I'm sure theres a good free one in there somewhere.
Title: File manager w/ copy queues
Post by: IPAndrews on June 28, 2005, 04:22:20 am
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Originally posted by karajorma
As soon as a dupicate is found your choices are to cancel the copy operation, overwrite anything that has the same filename or sit around taking notes of all the files that failed to copy over.


Precisely. Not ideal when you're copying 150gb of live user accounts.
Title: File manager w/ copy queues
Post by: karajorma on June 28, 2005, 05:22:53 am
Hull Uni accounts? Just take the system offline. Mess about for a day or two, bring it back up a bit at a time. take it down a second time and then finally biring it back up.

At least that's what the computer centre always did when I was there :p

Hopefully things have improved since then though :)
Title: File manager w/ copy queues
Post by: IPAndrews on June 28, 2005, 06:34:27 am
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Originally posted by karajorma
Hopefully things have improved since then though :)


:lol: I will not comment past saying I don't work for the Computer Centre ;)
Title: File manager w/ copy queues
Post by: Sandwich on June 29, 2005, 04:04:33 pm
Hmm, tried using SmartFTP, opening 2 Local Browser windows, and queueing file transfers from one to the other. It queued fine, but when I hit "Start", it crashed the program.

EDIT: Hmm, however, what you could do is set up an FTP server running on localhost. Connect to it, queue up your file transfers with SmartFTP or some other FTP proggy, and let 'er rip. Shouldn't be much slower than direct file copying, plus you get resumability, logging, and queueing.