Comments on: Better File and Folder Management with Quadro-View Windows Explorer

By: Ibrahim Rabbani

Ibrahim Rabbani — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:45:27 +0000

=D thanks raymond.. great post.. helps me manage my files ^_^

By: Jcym

Jcym — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:04:09 +0000

Hi Steve, I use the free version of Teracopy which I find handy especially when doing one off jobs, such as copying large numbers of files between external hard drives. The reason I like it is that it is available from the right click menu. It is easier than Robocopy for jobs where you want to just copy arbitrary lumps of files as you just select the files/folders you want and select Teracopy from the right click menu or drag and drop using the right mouse button. It handles errors without falling over, though as I haven’t used it for a few weeks I can’t remember if it just copies through errors or gives you an option window asking what you want to do about the error.

Though it is a huge improvement over the built in right click move/copy option as you can either drag and drop using right click and hold to the destination or simply right click on the required files/folders and choose Teracopy from the menu. You can then navigate to a destination as well as decide whether to do a copy or a move. You can also tweak the buffers used to try and maximise the copy/move rate.

Both are good tools just with different premises behind their use. Teracopy, at least the free versions, is a super duper version of the built in copy/move commands while Robocopy is probably better for the Sysadmin doing repetitive copy tasks and thus can make use of its script creation ability.

By: Steve Mills

Steve Mills — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:02:00 +0000

@Jcym

Thanks for the tip on Robocopy. I copy across the network a lot in repair and recovery and there’s nothing more frustrating than starting a large copy and come back an hour later and find out it dumped.

There’s also something called Terracopy that has been suggested, but I haven’t tried it.

Thanks again…….
Steve

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:27:38 +0000

Does it support FTP transfer, cause that’d be awesome :D

By: Erduan

Erduan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:24:35 +0000

thanks for the info. will check it out. i am trying to find something that suits my needs to manage my files and folders, windows explorer does a good job at it, but i’m just trying to find something a little better, something with a few extra tweaks.
i did find something better though, Directory Opus, it’s not free but it’s good. but will aslo give a shot to Q-Dir.

thanks

By: Jcym

Jcym — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:11:32 +0000

@Steve Mills: If you do a lot of copying across network resources and mapped drives and the like and do a a lot of repetitive copying from one or more source locations to one or more destination location have a look at MS\\\’s own Robocopy GUI. Robocopy is part of the Server 2003n Resource Kit and is standard on Vista and S2008 and the GUI for it can be had from the technet site, there are links at the bottom of this robocopy wiki page for both parts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy

It is a fairly simple multi tabbed GUI that gives multiple options and filters on what you copy as well as whether it ignores and/or logs any errors without stopping the process. What is nice for repetitive work is that once you have set up the options for a particular copy operation you can then save that as a script for reuse. For instance, I have a pile of scripts that I use all the time that saves me having to reenter the required options each time I need do the actual copy process.

By: yang

yang — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:04:56 +0000

it is very interesting