Oct 31, 2014 - All sub-folders and files copy with permissions attached. You're wasting so much of. Have you tried Teracopy? I've had luck with it breaking.
By on May 31, 2011 in When it comes to copying files, Windows Explorer may probably be called reliable, but fast it is not. After the rewrite of the copy routines in Vista had caused much customer dissatisfaction, Microsoft rewrote the copy dialog again for Windows 7. But still, especially copying many small files takes ages.
And there are other problems: Explorer does not handle long paths at all. Files and directories stored in paths longer than 260 characters (MAXPATH) are not copied by Explorer.
A third cause of grief is that Explorer copies files via the Windows file system cache. Every byte is read from disk into that cache in RAM and then written to disk again. If large amounts of data are copied, this behavior makes the file system cache grow in size until all RAM is used up and other data (DLLs, for example) are forced out. The result is that the system feels sluggish and the hard disk spins like mad after a large copy operation until all the cached data has been read into RAM again. Enter FastCopy A made me aware of an alternative to Explorer:. FastCopy does everything right Explorer does wrong:. It is fast (see my tests below).
It supports long paths (longer than MAXPATH, 260 characters). It does not use the Windows file system cache And there is more:. FastCopy is free to use and even available in source code. It can be used as GUI or command line tool.
It can install an Explorer shell extension that places FastCopy in the context menu of files and folders Sounds too good to be true? I hope it is not! Tests I performed a simple test where I copied a directory with 6,500 small files from D: to C. In Explorer that took 235 seconds, nearly four minutes. FastCopy finished in 70 seconds, just over a minute. That is more than three times faster!
Then I created a directory structure with paths longer than 500 characters (with ). Trying to copy that in Explorer gave me the following: As expected, FastCopy had no problems with the long paths.
I have used many or I can say almost all of the file copying software available in the market. But none of them yielded satisfactory results for me. They failed at one point or other. If someone provided long path name support then it does not provided multi threaded file transfer or pre scheduled file transfer. I was searching for a software which was simple to use and yet being very powerful. One of my friend suggested me to use GS Richcopy 360 and till now I am using it.
Its been 2 years now. Some of its features include long path name support which is necessary when copying huge files, copying locked files, multi threaded file transfer for fast transfer speed, pre scheduled file transfer, email notification when task is done and many more. “Were you copying from the PC to the NAS? Or was the copy done in a backup job running on the NAS? I believe a lot of older Windows systems are limited to 255 characters.
When copying to the NAS, often the destination path is longer because it includes the server-name part. Mapping the NAS share to a drive letter might get you a few more characters. You can use third party softwarei use gs richcopy 360/robocopy.If you receive error messages related to the long path name, these software is your solution. It is well capable of handling pathnames of any length. Nevertheless, it comes up with an internal window limit of 32,000 references.
Normally, Windows cannot handle file pathnames exceeding 255 cases. This tool may prove to be very handy to access files with pathnames too long. Let us recognize how we can apply this efficient tool.”.
You may be denied access to a file if it's in use by another application.' .
Your original file is marked read-only. Your first attempt to copy the file actually succeeds or fails after the destination file has been created. Unbeknownst to you, the destination file has the read-only flag set because the original file did. Unsetting the read-only doesn't fix anything, because in order to copy the file now you must be able to delete or overwrite the earlier copy in the destination, and the copy is marked read-only. The solution here is to delete the previously copied file, or at least reset its read-only status as well as that of the original file. File In Use Perhaps almost as common, you may be denied access to a file if it's in use by another application.
This typically refers to the destination; meaning that if the destination file already exists and you're attempting to replace or overwrite it you may not be able to if another application has that destination file open. However this can also apply to the source file.
Depending on the application, a program can have a file open in such a way that you cannot even read it in order to make a copy of it until the application has been closed. I'd actually expect programs like TurboTax to operate this way. Regardless of whether it's the source or destination, the solution here is simply to close any application that might be accessing the file. If you're not sure who might be using a file in use, then you might want to check out this article: File Permissions. This most commonly happens:. If your hard disk's filesystem is NTFS. and you're attempting to copy from one user's documents to another.
and you're not logged in as the administrator There are other scenarios where this can happen as well, but that's the most common. Most people forget that Windows is a multi-user operating system.
That implies that not only does it keep separate settings and so on for each user that can log in to the machine, it's also charged with protecting those users from each other. One of those protections is file access permissions. The most obvious is that if you're logged in as user 'User A', you probably cannot access files in 'c: Documents and Settings User B'. Attempts to access files therein will get you 'access denied'.
NTFS actually supports quite complex per-user permissions on any file or folder. Right click on a file in Windows Explorer, click on Properties and then click on the Security tab for an idea of what might be involved.
Other Thoughts Naturally there are other things that could be getting in your way. Filesystem or hard disk corruption might be one, which can most likely at least be identified by running CHKDSK in a Windows Command Prompt. Keep in mind that if all you're seeing is 'Access is Denied', it's not telling which side of your copy you're being denied access to. It might be that you can't access the file you're attempting to copy, or it might be that you can't access the location you're attempting to copy to. Keep that in mind as you look at the various ideas above.
You also mentioned that you're attempting to 'move' a file. A move from drive to drive is nothing more than a copy followed by a delete. It's possible that it's the delete at the end that's failing.
Article - November 7, 2007. Terry Hollett November 12, 2007 4:45 AM Since I've been using XP I've never had so many 'locked' files in my life. I save a lot of web pages such as yours on my hard drive. I double click on them to open them in Opera.
That file will be locked and I can't delete or move it. On the other hand, if I open Opera first and drag and drop the file into it, it wont be locked. I also have occasions where I had to delete files and sometimes sub-folders within a folder before I could delete the main folder. I came across a simple utility that might help, called 'Unlocker', from: ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/#description www.geocities.com/terryhollett2003/.
Brett October 6, 2009 12:34 PM I am trying to copy a file from a Windows 2003 Server (behind a firewall) to another Windows 2003 Server (other side of the firewall) using pass-through authentication (local user accounts on both servers). If the local account on the target server is in the local administrators group the copy works fine, but without administrator priveleges I get 'Access is Denied'. Any idea what type of privelege is required to copy files? Obviously I can't get away with having the locl account in the local administrators group. Bobby December 4, 2010 4:09 AM Ahh the reasons to why are many, but the solution to the problem is. Did any one solve it? K Here it is.
Click folder of data you want to move and paste in desired location. #ERROR Access denied blah blah - K Click folder again this time 'add to archive' and set it to 'store' or fastest or least or no compression. Winrar in my case eliminated all the files I could not move from the archive leaving me only with what i could move - Schweet! - But some were word docs. So I opened them up and saved them with word to my new location. Hope this help someone. L Vilmos April 9, 2013 9:15 AM Win 7 really made a fool of me!
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