On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 08:14 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: > Just thought y'all would get a kick out of this: On my business laptop, I'm > running Vista with an openSUSE 10.3 VM appliance. > > I downloaded about 21G of files from our corporate network for me to use at > home. I have a 500G USB drive here that I use to store stuff on. > > Well, I copied the files and went to paste them on the USB drive in Vista. > After about ten minutes, I noticed the progress bar was still calculating the > time to copy and had a current estimate of 74 hours. > > I cancelled the process and fired up the VMWare session of openSUSE. I then > opened up the host drive via smb and the usb drive. I started copying. > > 40 minutes later, the process was complete. > > Go openSUSE! > > -- > k > www.filesite.org
Slow copying of files to USB devices seems to be a bug in Vista ( probably one of millions ). I found using Teracopy helped a great deal. I takes over the copying of files from vasta and copies them much quicker! http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php Richard G. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
