RichCopy 4.0

We're all aware of the short commings of Windows Copy, and while Robocopy is a major improvement, it still has some annoying limitations. Currently, I think the best file copy utility available is RichCopy. You can read about it on MS TechNet here.

RichCopy is around 3-4 times faster than Robocopy because it is multithreaded. Like Robocopy it is fault tolerant. The TechNet article shows the options page in RichCopy to demonstrate the level of control the utility provides. Personally, I think one of the best features is the ability to create and save detailed profiles that make it simple to perform repetitive transfers.

I think Niclo was after something like this... added to my tools file. thanks!

Just used this for the first time recently, and wondered where it had been all my life. I used it to transfer just over 14 thousand photos from a failing hard drive. Drive electronics were bad, and the drive would run a few minutes then just disappear. After I unplugged the drive for s bit it was accessible again and I would fire up RichCopy once more. I used the move setting in the profile, so any files that failed to copy were retried until the move was verified and I didn't duplicate any files in the process.

The English in the documentation is fairly poor, but the Help file is pretty thorough nonetheless. One of the more interesting settings possible in the program is the Purge option, which will remove all files in the target directory other than the files being transferred. I cannot believe this was first written in 2001 and I just found it!

excellent!