using teracopy for moving files

farfromrefuge

10-05-2009 01:26:26

I just finished my server setup, and it made a few glitches appear.
First i need to explain how my setup works. I use one principal partition where folders are mapped to other partitions. A lot easier to manage and compatible with utorrent move to folder/label feature.
So now when tvrename found new missing episodes it moves them to a folder which actually is another partition, so it takes time! My problem is that the progress dialog doesnt work at all so i dont know what s happening.
So i thought we could have an option to use teracopy for moving files. What do you think?

sstteevvee

10-05-2009 17:22:05

I'm looking into re-doing the copy progress dialog, including a re-write of how the files are copied. I emailed the teracopy developer a while ago about using it as a means to do the copying/moving, but there is no way for external applications to ask it to copy files around.

In spite of the copy progress dialog not showing you anything, I assume the copy still ends up working, though? And, just to clarify, you've got NTFS volumes mapped to paths, and they're what you're copying to?

farfromrefuge

10-05-2009 19:52:56

I am not really sure about that, XYplorer does it!
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2596

sstteevvee

10-05-2009 20:06:54

Its been a while since I looked, so maybe it can now...and indeed it does. Looks like you can pass a file with a list of things to copy as a command-line argument. I'll have another look at making use of teracopy sometime, then - perhaps also as part of a more generic "use external tool for copy/move" feature.

farfromrefuge

11-05-2009 00:30:22

Nice, i think that would be a great addition!

RedX

08-12-2009 19:41:41

Instead of teracopy i propose FastCopy (http://www.ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en). It IS the fastet copier of them all. (I've tried about 5 of them and this one beat them all hands down). And it has got nice command line support so integration should be no problem.

Sskodje

20-06-2010 08:17:07

I don't know what copy method you are currently using, but for my own little project, i p/invoked the copyFileEx method from windows, that comes complete with progress args you can put straight into the progress bar. The speed doesnt seem half bad either, but i might be wrong on that, since i rarely get over 50% of the network speed anyway here.. CopyFileEx also seems to copy the file locally when you copy from one disk to another on a remote machine, without going through the network.

ups, just realized this thread was a year old :oops:

DedTV

21-06-2010 06:23:36

Yeah. There's doesn't seem to be any problems with copy speed with the current version. I get between 50-90MB/s when transferring files between my servers with TV Rename which is the same I get using Explorer, RichCopy or IO Meter which means it's going as fast as my system can take it.