file copy program

[Red Squirrel]

I'm looking for a free standalone app that will let me specify 2 paths and it will copy ALL the files/folders "as is" to the destination folder. Something like xcopy, but do ALL files (xcopy skips hidden and system files). Something preferably with a basic dialog box gui with two browse buttons.

Anything like this exist? If not I'll probably write it as it would not be very hard, but I just don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to.

The windows file copy SUCKS. It frustrates me that a simple task as copying large amount (thousands of 1GB+) files is a nightmare as one single error stops the whole process.

 

[Fokks]

You might want to check out Microsofts SyncToy...

http://technet.microsoft.com/e...62483(TechNet.10).aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncToy

 

[nova2]

robocopy and xxcopy can do this. both are free.

i prefer xxcopy, but only after i modified it using ollydbg so i could use it on my system which it previously constantly told me was not supported. I removed that spam and now xxcopy works fine in my automated bat files.

xxcopy /CLONE
/CLONE Duplicates a directory (volume). This switch is a shortcut for
the following combination: /KS/H/E/R/Q/Y/BI/ZY/ZE/oD0.
(important: this does (/ZY) delete all extra files in destination dir that aren't in src dir, unless
(like with SEP) the dest dir contains extra dirs that are in the exclude list)

 

[brxndxn]

You can specify xcopy to copy system and hidden files.. All the flags are listed if you type xcopy /? on the command line..

Usually, when I do an xcopy, it looks pretty nuts.. but it works much better than the default.. I would suggest the following:

xcopy source destination /d /e /c /i /f /g /h /k /o /y

Also, Synctoy is pretty decent - though it tends to lock up if you copy large amounts (400gb+) of small files..


IMO, there really does need to be a good file copy program that allows large amounts of data to be queued up and transfered, verified, continue after errors.. etc.. SyncToy is the closest I found and it still is flawed.

Syncback is annoying shareware so I don't use it.

 

[mc866]

Robocopy GUI, I use it to copy 70+GB files all the time, works great, the GUI makes things a bit easier so you don't need to know all the parameters.

 

[Lorne]

I miss Diskmaster from the old Amiga days.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I just tried robocopy GUI and it just kept crashing.

Think I'll just make a console one for now, I made an app that has to cycle through directories a while back so I can pretty much copy and paste that part of the code and go from there. For now I'll just make it command line interactive as I have not coded GUI apps in super long and forget any of that code. I'll probably just open source it and release to public and let someone else do the dirty work if they want.

Never noticed the /h in xcopy though I had checked for that too.. But even xcopy crashes with too much data, got an "out of memory" error. A file copy operation should not be using that much ram if coded properly.

 

[ChunkiMunki]

I use Ycopy on occasion. stand alone and free
screenshot and download

 

[JackMDS]

http://www.freecommander.com/

 

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: ChunkiMunki
I use Ycopy on occasion. stand alone and free
screenshot and download

That looks like exactly what I need.

I ended up writing a quick program for the file copy job I had to do and it worked now, but I'll keep that one in mind later on. GUI is better then having to type the path in the console.

 

[pcgeek101]

Robocopy FTW