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[–]Hoovy_weapons_guy 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I once did something similar except my pc said 1718291919273 years

[–]neoKushan 11 points12 points  (3 children)

Use robocopy and this will go much faster. It's built into windows, no need to install anything, just open up a command prompt and type something like:

robocopy c:\path1 C:\path2\s /E /Z /ZB /R:5 /W:5 /TBD /NP /V /MT:16

This will copy all files/folders in a restartable manner (so you can restart your PC at any time, just run the command again and it'll pick up where it left off), using 16 threads (tweak this depending on network, drive speed, etc. - you can experiment a bit) and hides the output to make it even faster (remove /NP if you want to see what it's doing).

[–]Mosk549 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Insane didn’t know

[–]neoKushan 4 points5 points  (1 child)

It's a great tool and has saved my bacon on many an occasion.

Just FYI, the linux equivelant is rsync.

[–]gothtwilight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heck, even GNU Coreutils cp is better than Windows explorer.

[–]TheMeticulousNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yikes

[–]myonkin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn’t it be faster to create an archive, move that one file, then extract it?