Geek Reviews: Use TeraCopy to Speed Up File Copying
One of the biggest complaints about Vista has always been the speed problems when copying files, especially large files over the network. If you want to dramatically speed up your file copying, then you want to take a look at TeraCopy.
Note: If you aren't interested in installing any additional software but still want to speed things up, make sure that you have Vista Service Pack 1 installed, and then try the autotuning tweak.
Using TeraCopy
TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek time as well as asynchronous copy to speed up the transfer time.
For this example I am transferring one of my mp3 collections to my local C: drive from my external. The size of this folder is 56.1 GB and would take quite a while copying over by using the drag and drop method.
There are a couple ways to go about using TeraCopy. The first is to open the TeraCopy user interface and drag the files or folder you want to copy into TeraCopy. From there you can copy them over by clicking the Copy or Move button and selecting a location.
Another way to use TeraCopy is right click on the folder you want to transfer then select TeraCopy from the menu. This will open up the TeraCopy user interface and copy all files into the application.
You will see progress indicators in the user interface while the files are copying, and you can pause, resume, or cancel the process. In the instance of an error TeraCopy will only skip the file after trying several times to correct the issue. If nothing can be done, TeraCopy will only skip the file and not cancel the entire process. This is a huge advantage compared to relying on a Windows transfer.
Opening up the Options and Preferences you can integrate TeraCopy into the Windows and use it as the default copy handler.
Another cool thing to mention is that TeraCopy Portable is available and is compatible with PortableApps. TeraCopy completed the 56.1 GB file transfer in under an hour. While the transfer was being executed I noticed no lag time on any of the other things I was doing on my computer. It was as though it was not running at all.
I highly recommend using TeraCopy for large file transfers!
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I use this app religiously! Great review!
I've been a huge TeraCopy fan for quite a while - it's a great piece of software, and its free!
Along with the option to integrate the installed version directly into Windows, don't forget to check out the additional options in the program's .ini configuration file (see http://help.codesector.com/TeraCopyConfiguration/ )
…and having a portable version sure is nice, too!!
I just recently tried Teracopy, after hearing about it on Widows Weekly, it works great, it also integrates with xplorer from zabkat.com another excellent add-on for Windows.
I LIVE BY TeraCopy. It is the best file copy-paste-r in the world!
No more "Microsoft Minutes"!!
-=Ben=-
I've been using TeraCopy for a long time now, and it's been very helpful in a lot of times.
One of my best features is that you can actually pause the copying!
Of course being free is the best thing in the app.
Peace.
i dont know how i've lived all my years without teracopy… thank you1111!!!!
tera copy speeds up larger file transfers but it causes some problems when moving files. even after moving some times it keeps 0byte file which cant be deleted and which causes sometimes windows explorer to malfunction(i am quite sure this happens becoz of using teracopy) and when moving files if we canceled the operation in the middle it leds to keeping some currupted files.
anyway its a handy tool. i use it very much.
hope developers will concentrate in above problems in near future
thx
I tried it… but it does not allow for simultaneous transfers. If you initiate a second File Transfer while the first one is still active in Teracopy, it waits until it is finished then does the second transfer. I found that it also sometimes hesitates a few seconds in beginning the File Transfer. It was for those reasons that I uninstalled it.
Works amazingly fast on my Win 2000 Box, with just 256MB RAM. I tested on 3GB Transfer and surfed in Firefox simultaneously.