Hi every one,

I discovered recently this kind of software and I would like to have your opinion on the subject.

Are they really effective ?

Here are the most famous softwares I found.

Tera copy

http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

Total Copy

http://www.ranvik.net/totalcopy/

FastCopy

http://www.ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en

SuperCopier

http://supercopier.sfxteam.org/modules/mydownloads/

And I think Maybe sone of view use softwares like TotalCommander and Xplorer² or even a windows shell alternative !

So please tell me. What is the best ?

Thx

PS:Sorry for my english

TeraCopy is the best one of these imo.

I think TeraCopy is the better one too.

I've used TeraCopy Pro under XP Pro 32-bit and Vista 64-bit. It has worked beautifully for me on both systems.

+1 for teracopy

TerraCopy IMO.

What is the objective of these alternatives? I never had any problems with windows file copy.

I got hooked on TotalCommander... But TeraCopy is free, isn't it?

There is a free version and a pay version of TeraCopy.

Here's another.  Command line only, but it has an excellent help file: http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm

If we're going command line, I vote robocopy

yeah robocopy rules the command line. i wish teracopy could be executed from command line without and install as easily as robocopy.

if you want to replace the whole explorer shell, Dopus is awesome (though paying for it isnt)

Messerschmitt, though vista copy dialogs are step in the right direction over XP, teracopy has more options when a file conflicts (overwrite, skip, all etc), can be set to always on top, can pause/resume during a transfer(even if interupted), and when copying more than 1 set to/from the same volume, teracopy will wait for the first to finish before starting the next set. Windows XP/Vista will just copy when told to even if it slows down the other transfers.

@nitroshift - iirc, TeraCopy has an option to integrate into TotalCommander. Give it a try.

Ok, personally I go for Robocopy, but how about a utility that can copy a single source to multiple destinations? I have to make 20 copies of a thumb drive and Doing one at a time just sounds depressing.

What about if you copy a lot of files and a file is corrupted? In Windows XP the whole copy process stops. What happens with TeraCopy?

Here's a comparison of the features of both XXCOPY and ROBOCOPY:

http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy30.htm

it logs an error (doesnt popup) and continues with the copy. you can retry it or redo the copy and select "older only" as the overwrite option. it will skip exsisting files with the same date or newer dates and finish the copy.

Just for the record, YCOPY:
http://www.ruahine.com/
http://www.ruahine.com/ycopy-file-copy-utility.html
was designed for such tasks

jaclaz

Ok thank you everybody for all these answers. I think it's very clear that TeraCopy is the number one !

I had a pretty good look at TeraCopy myself (the paid version) and its copy operations using 30MB chunks and all (time spent in process monitor, benchmarking, etc). I didn't really notice any improvement in performance overall. It only seemed to introduce a strange explorer GUI glitch (caused by its shell extension -- gone when it was removed). YMMV.

I never considered using an alternative to the built-in windows copy and paste.

Gave teracopy a shot. Although I haven't notices that it's faster than the built-in over the network, I gotta say there are some great features such as

* ability to pause
* ability to add files from different folder for copying at once rather than having to do them separately.

One annoying feature is that it insists being on top unless it's minimized to task bar. Haven't found a way to turn that off in options.

the always on top thing is kinda out of the way.
open Teracopy, click More, Menu, Always on Top

I have no such menu item. It's not in options either.

Click to view attachment

Now this is something I could never get. What's wrong with just right clicking something, picking copy out of the context menu, then plastering it where you want it?

What's wrong with it is that it's not productive when you want to copy X number of files found in Y number of folders all to the same folder. In this case you would have to click Z number of times by going to Y number of folders and copying them.

With Teracopy, you can put all those files is a queue and copy them at once! And there are other benefits.