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Robocopy is still the fastest way to copy thousands of files on Windows, and I wasted years not using it

Windows is a bundle of both CLI and GUI tools. We use the GUI ones more because they serve a broader use case and are convenient to use. For file copying and moving, I hadn't ventured much outside the ...
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Windows' fastest file copier has no window, and it shipped in 1997

File Explorer gives you a progress bar, a folder animation, and the reassuring sense that copying files is a polite, supervised process — though that initial delay is exactly why File Explorer takes ...
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Using Robocopy To Transfer Files

The GUI is fine if you're only moving a few files, but for larger and more complex migrations, this built-in Windows utility is the way to go. There are many ways to get a file from Point A to Point B ...
Ars Technica

Need ROBOCOPY-like functionality for an explicit list of files

I have about 600GB of data to copy from one server to another. Normally, I'd use ROBOCOPY for this so I can skip copying files which are identical between both systems. In this case, however, I need ...

The story of how I got stuck on 'email notifications' while building a backup app in C#. The 'ntfy.sh' I adopted instead was amazing

IntroductionI am developing a desktop application in C# called 'Robocopy Scheduler' that allows users to easily automate the ...