Interesting discovery

**dieKatze88** · 05-17-2009, 12:16 AM

Situation: You have 2 Windows Vista machines connected via local area network. Assume they are equal (enough).

This Local Area Network is assumed to be IP4+IP6 only. No other rogue protocols.

You wish to copy all the files on machine A to machine B. You can do this one of two ways:

Way 1:
Select all the files on machine A, and put them on a share on machine B.

Way 2:
Copy all the files out of a share on machine A onto machine B.

Now, Here is whats interesting about this:

I'm doing this as we speak. Way 1 claimed that it would take 19 fucking hours.
Way 2 claims a time of 45 minutes.

Lets be very clear, we are not talking about an insignifigant amount of data. We're talking a lot of ones and zeros folks.

Anybody know why this might be?

AceJay · 05-17-2009, 01:45 AM

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.

deathrazor · 05-17-2009, 01:53 AM

because windows

**helix eternal** · 05-17-2009, 10:22 AM

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

Excel-2010 · 05-17-2009, 11:42 AM

What OS is accurate about any file transfer ETA?

Also TeraCopy.

**dieKatze88** · 05-17-2009, 12:16 PM

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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.

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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.

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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.

Excel-2010 · 05-17-2009, 03:09 PM

You open the options and press Register Copy Handler (and maybe check the option that sets TeraCopy as the default copy handler). That's too much to deal with?

AceJay · 05-17-2009, 11:09 PM

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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.

Could be some dumb algorithm that's like
Copy
Wait
Erase share bit
Actually copy

Or it could be the way the files were selected on Way 1.

Try it again a few times and toggle UAC, security software, etc etc.

If you want to take the time, you could just do a fresh install on both computers. If the Hard drive isn't EXACTLY the same model on both, there's bound to be some inconsistencies. Even if it's the same a revision could be present on one, which has a different read/write algortihm, etc etc.

Who knows lol