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Every time I need to move big files around in my harddrive, I’m rubbing my head and questioning myself what on earth do M$ engineers had in mind while coding that lame copy system.

Here is my list of cons, probably I forgot some:

One day I’ve decide that that’s enough, and after googling a little, I’ve stumbled upon this little software called TeraCopy.

I’ve given it a chance and I can say that I was amused, as all the cons that I have stated are dealt with TeraCopy in ease, and for free too!

That was too easy

Now I can go wild copying from here to there without a worry while TeraCopy just keeps my new requests on queue while processing the first request. saving me time and headache. I can copy a file, pause it because I would like to game a little and continue copying it after I have  finished gaming.

I have to say that there is a paid version of TeraCopy that its main advantage on the free one is, that one can manipulate TeraCopy’s queue.

Download TeraCopy

Check the even better alternate CopyHandler in this post:

Want to copy big files fast? Meet CopyHandler!

From TeraCopy homepage:

TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features:

• Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
• Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
• Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
• Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.
• Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.
• Full Unicode support.