This happens too many times to make a joke about it – last night I set a 6.4 GB folder to be copied to an external drive by using the right-click copy, right click paste command in Explorer. I woke up this morning to a window asking me a question about one of the file YET to be copied – it had hardly started from the looks of the completion bar.
WHY can’t a computer, when asked to copy something, review all the files, separate out the problematic ones, ask all the questions BEFORE it starts, and then complete it quickly – I’m copying from a SATA to a 1 Tb External HDD and besides already taking all night, it is still reporting in excess of 80 minutes to “complete” – of course, that is unless it finds another problem.
CAN a pc copy quickly? This is a quad core Phenom II running at 3.75Ghz, with 8GB of DDR3 matched memory. How stupid is it to write a dumb copy program that is less intelligent than my shoe, in 2011? Why can’t it resolve all issues before the copy? Why not at least copy everything it can and then ask about what’s left, rather than stopping like some stupid, blind mouse stuck at the end of a corridor?
