Moving 104,107 items worth 40GB

[thecoolnessrune]

I move files all the time and it almost always happens instantaneously. This is taking forever. This really sucks... I have so much still to do to finish up tonight.

That is all

EDIT: Just as I hit post it suddenly finished. I knew it would get the job done. Just needed a little public humiliation was all

 

[ViviTheMage]

K

 

[mugs]

I'd have used robocopy to copy that many files

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: mugs
I'd have used robocopy to copy that many files

But it was a move, not a copy

Even worse I noticed that my brother simply unzipped the archives in the same folder. I could have and just did delete half the contents cause they were just zip files.

 

[tasmanian]

Originally posted by: thecoolnessrune

Originally posted by: mugs
I'd have used robocopy to copy that many files

But it was a move, not a copy

Even worse I noticed that my brother simply unzipped the archives in the same folder. I could have and just did delete half the contents cause they were just zip files.

Arrh what you be pirating matey.

 

[Epic Fail]

:Q

That's a lot of porn.

 

[BlackTigers]

Originally posted by: thecoolnessrune

Originally posted by: mugs
I'd have used robocopy to copy that many files

But it was a move, not a copy

Even worse I noticed that my brother simply unzipped the archives in the same folder. I could have and just did delete half the contents cause they were just zip files.

sounds like someone had a rapidshare account,

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: tasmanian

Originally posted by: thecoolnessrune

Originally posted by: mugs
I'd have used robocopy to copy that many files

But it was a move, not a copy

Even worse I noticed that my brother simply unzipped the archives in the same folder. I could have and just did delete half the contents cause they were just zip files.

Arrh what you be pirating matey.

I be pirating nothing It happens to be about 25GB worth of images from a large image database that went down temporarily. We held onto the database and with the help of the owner went through the code and improved it. When he got done with the trouble in his life and wanted to take the reigns again, we helped upload the massive collection back in place and get it tagged, sorted, and established in the database. This was just a backup of the image collection that I was moving to an area where I store images for just backups.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: Epic Fail
:Q

That's a lot of porn.

Probably 90% of it is PG-13 stuff of different varieties. 5% is shock and awe. About 2% are really nice landscape images, some real, some CG. The remaining 3% is a mixture of "oh thats cool" and "wtf".

 

[OUCaptain]

Forever to transfer 40 gigs? Your computer sucks...stop whining

 

[ManBearPig]

arr me matey, shiver me timbers.

just because. yeah that would take for effing ever to move...since my computer is so unreliable i wouldnt even attempt that.

 

[Jeff7]

Moving the files from what to what?

Drive to drive? Folder to folder? Drive to external drive?
If it's an external USB drive, it probably has the write cache disabled.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: OUCaptain
Forever to transfer 40 gigs? Your computer sucks...stop whining

My main computer is a laptop A 5400RPM drive can only do so much. But the HDD didn't seem to be doing that much though. My CPU was pegged out though.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Moving the files from what to what?

Drive to drive? Folder to folder? Drive to external drive?
If it's an external USB drive, it probably has the write cache disabled.

Folder on C: Drive, to another folder on C: drive. Same drive in other words. Just moving to a different folder from the main C: directory.

 

[Jeff7]

Odd, that kind of move should occur almost instantaneously. I think it simply reassigns the files to different folders, but doesn't actually change their location on the disk.

But then, if you tried to do more than 100k items at once, that might have caused some issues with RAM, and Windows would have started using the pagefile.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Odd, that kind of move should occur almost instantaneously. I think it simply reassigns the files to different folders, but doesn't actually change their location on the disk.

But then, if you tried to do more than 100k items at once, that might have caused some issues with RAM, and Windows would have started using the pagefile.

I'm going to Wisconsin day after tomorrow so I've been shuffling stuff around all day trying to get it back in order and backed up (just in case in all, especially with laptops). So I've been moving things around all day. First time its taken 10 minutes to do a move though. And now the HDD is accessing quite alot even an hour after the big move.

 

[Jeff7]

Maybe it's badly fragmented?

Or else do a chkdsk /r to make sure it's all in good working order.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Roger Wilco will do just as soon as all this crap is backed up!

 

[Born2bwire]

/insert obscure Slashdot reference on moving a 1 megabyte file on a Mac.

 

[kt]

Originally posted by: thecoolnessrune

Originally posted by: mugs
I'd have used robocopy to copy that many files

But it was a move, not a copy

Even worse I noticed that my brother simply unzipped the archives in the same folder. I could have and just did delete half the contents cause they were just zip files.

robocopy /move

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire
/insert obscure Slashdot reference on moving a 1 megabyte file on a Mac.

If you can ever find that obscure reference I'd love to know what you're talking about

 

[Shawn]

Try moving 500GB then get back to me.

 

[Vehemence]

Originally posted by: Epic Fail
:Q

That's a lot of porn.

40GB is not a lot of porn at all! I've got entire SERVERS in my basement of it! :Q

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: thecoolnessrune

Originally posted by: Born2bwire
/insert obscure Slashdot reference on moving a 1 megabyte file on a Mac.

If you can ever find that obscure reference I'd love to know what you're talking about

http://www.kottke.org/98/11/my-mac-sucks

Variations of this will pop up on Slashdot.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Is this a real problem? Is there some "issue" with the older Mac OS that caused it to behave that way?