The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Copying files

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by taelrak, Sep 21, 2007.

  1. taelrak

    taelrak Lost

    Reputations:
    860
    Messages:
    2,979
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    So I'm in the middle of copying a couple hundred GB over to another HDD via finder and apparently it's going to take about 2 hours (from USB external to Firewire 800 external), which leads me to consider:

    1. Why isn't there some sort of indicator for the speed of the transfer in Finder's copy window?

    2. There's gotta be a faster way to transfer files without having to preserve the original file system structure.
     
    taelrak, Sep 21, 2007
    #1
  2. Percybut

    Percybut Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    5
    Messages:
    222
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    it does tell you the number of files and time remaining.
     
    Percybut, Sep 21, 2007
    #2
  3. taelrak

    taelrak Lost

    Reputations:
    860
    Messages:
    2,979
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    eh, showing the actual transfer speed in Mbps or something would be nice.
     
    taelrak, Sep 21, 2007
    #3
  4. mattedmunds

    mattedmunds Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    122
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Vista does that :)
     
    mattedmunds, Sep 21, 2007
    #4
  5. stealthsniper96

    stealthsniper96 What Was I Thinkin'?

    Reputations:
    207
    Messages:
    1,398
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    how.dare.you.

    you make the hulk angry
     
    stealthsniper96, Sep 21, 2007
    #5