2007-11-05
Low-Stress Batch File Copying
Ever started a gig or two of files copying and went out only to come back to find that it stopped at a prompt five minutes after you left? I anticipated and worked around that whenever I needed to, but it was still a pain because my solutions were hackish messes.
Enter Ycopy for Windows and Midnight Commander for Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. Both are free and both solve the problem in the same way. A prompt like “Overwrite?” doesn’t prevent it from copying the other files while it waits for input.
Of course, for you Linux users who don’t already know Midnight Commander, I highly recommend it. It’s a real swiss army knife when it comes to file management and if you like using keyboard shortcuts, it might be more comfortable than GUI equivalents like Krusader and Gentoo.
The Low-Stress Batch File Copying by Stephan Sokolow, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.
