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Originally Posted by AceJay  a: Well we know that Vista's "Time remaining" can't be trusted. It might be related to UAC though. A few times I've copied things it's given me 27318972 hours and then after 10 minutes a UAC prompt comes up and it's done.
b: Network problems?
Would the same thing happen on XP? I haven't tried it. | Maybe maybe not, But I have noticed that Vista is much faster at transferring files than XP ever was. Quote:
Originally Posted by databaserazor because windows | You're not allowed to post in this thread anymore. Keep responses relevant and intelligent. Quote:
Originally Posted by helix eternal My best guess is that Windows is stupid when it comes to the share folders and has some weird way of caching the data when you go from PC-A to shared folder on PC-B. Your best bet is to put all the data you want to share in the shared folder on the local machine and pull it off on the other machine.
Or option 3 would be get a nice big external drive and transfer the files to and from that  | Well I got it done, but I want to know why its that way. Its the same operation either way. Quote:
Originally Posted by Excel-2009 What OS is accurate about any file transfer ETA?
Also TeraCopy. | Linux, at least Gnome is. Also, yeah, but I didn't feel like dealing with it.
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