How do you copy 60m files ?

Has any one ever tried to copy 60 million files ?

 

All in the same folder? Where/What are you trying to copy them to?

 

I am not trying to do anything. It was an interesting article which I thought people on WindowsBBS would like to read.

 

There has to be a better way......

 

he seemed to have tried everything i thought of and none of my ideas would have worked.

but this article is another incentive (to me at least) to start learning how to work on other OSes (sp) (at least Linux maybe even Unix)

 

He did admit that RichCopy worked, albeit single threaded it wouldn't be any faster than his linux (cp) method. Though there would be no need to have a linux system at hand.

There's an article about RichCopy in the online Technet magazine (link below) if you're interested.

Free Utility: RichCopy, an Advanced Alternative to RoboCopy

The article also has a link to download RichCopy

 

not sure ill ever have 60 million files to manage, but definitely worth checking it out,

ty Wildfire

 

Yup, that's the whole point of me posting it. Even I don't see me or any of client reaching close to that limit, but its better to be forearmed just in case

 

i think "news" like this is always good to know so ty for posting this

 

In fact I have done it. Probably more like 100 million. Takes a very long time. We used robocopy. We had thousands of folders. This was part of a sytem upgrade at my last job. We kept a running list of what was copied and when. Took a very long time.