Slow File copying

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chas

I tried to copy a directory containing 4062 files and 7.76 GB ( so vista
tells me). Vista is telling it will take 9 hours to complete the copy,
Ok some nice clever person please explain what is going on.
 
I tried to copy a directory containing 4062 files and 7.76 GB ( so vista
tells me). Vista is telling it will take 9 hours to complete the copy,
Ok some nice clever person please explain what is going on.
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Estimated time calculations, in my opinion, is "not quite baked." The wild
times it displays are well, just wild. It's unfortunate but as long as
operations continue and complete (in a much more reasonable timeframe than
what's displayed), I choose to ignore it and continue to hope that this
gets fixed.
 
In my experience file transfer time estimates may be a little exagerated but
file transfers are painfully slow on both my machines running Vista. Does
anyone know how to speed it up?
 
brink said:
Hi all,

Go to this link below and do this section:
ENABLING ADVANCED PERFORMANCE:

It will show you how to increase your hard drive performance to help
with file transfering.

'http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/59886-hard-drive-speed-boosts.html?ltr=H'
(http://tinyurl.com/2rpdy6)

Hope this helps you,
Shawn


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hi this link is for an earlier windows version not vista. as the control
panel is very different now.
i have had the problem with slow file copying, it really annoying i think
microsoft should fix this problem. on xp it would have done this in seconds
now it takes half an hour!!!!!
there must be a fix it for this problem.
is it something to do with the security settings!
thanks
tracey.
 
Holtchas

It works for Vista if you follow the instructions. You must open Control
Panel in the Classic View.
 
Hi, Chas.

This has improved since the beta, but it still needs work.

My theory (It's really just a guess, but "theory" sounds so much more
sophisticated!) is that the algorithm sees how much time the first file
transfer takes, then multiplies that by the number of files left. If the
first file is only 1 byte, then we get a very short estimated time. But if
that first file is a 1 GB monster, we see the "9 hours" estimate - and we
panic! Just wait. If the second file is short, then the estimate will come
down quickly.

It seems to me that a smart programmer should be able to interpolate and
synthesize (lots of big words today) and calculate an estimate based on a
combination of the number of files and their total size. But until that
programmer - or "some nice clever person" - finishes the job, we're stuck
with the wild - and wildly fluctuating - estimates.

All we can really do, anyhow, is wait until it is done. :^{

RC
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