On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 5:35 PM, David Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I was trying to xcopy 60GB of important files to a USB hard drive and it >> kept dying with INSUFFICIENT MEMORY. This is caused by the path being too >> long. I shortened some paths and kept getting further and further, but it >> would keep dying further along. By good timing, a friend just dropped in and >> he said he uses robocopy for this sort of thing. And sure enough, he’s >> right, it has no such path limit. I just forgot that it existed. It has lots >> of really useful switches. > > It has no path limit - but on fast networks it is dog slow. Someone remarked > that to me and I didn't believe them so I went and tested it for myself. > Sure enough, explorer.exe kills robocopy for perf.
Strange, I often find xcopy from the command-line will beat explorer on speed, and doesn't cause the explorer desktop to freeze like it sometimes does for network copying. -- Meski "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
