Sparse files are not properly copied over on teracopy
I have sparse files on my drive, which means that the allocated file size (physical) is smaller than the actual file size (logical). This means that it actually occupies less space on the source drive. When copying over to the destination, the full logical size is allocated on the destination drive instead of only the physical file size. Henceforth, unable to copy over files if the destination drive is nearly full when it should only take up lesser space if only physical file size is allocated.
Jerry Woo CW 8 days ago
Issue
TeraCopy
Sparse files are not properly copied over on teracopy
I have sparse files on my drive, which means that the allocated file size (physical) is smaller than the actual file size (logical). This means that it actually occupies less space on the source drive. When copying over to the destination, the full logical size is allocated on the destination drive instead of only the physical file size. Henceforth, unable to copy over files if the destination drive is nearly full when it should only take up lesser space if only physical file size is allocated.
Jerry Woo CW 8 days ago
Issue
TeraCopy
Completed
Automatically verify skipped files
An older version of Teracopy used to verify skipped files automatically. Now the application stops, even if Verify is checkmarked, and the user must hit next and then hit verify to have it proceed. So, a job I ran last night barely made progress because it was waiting for me to take those steps. Here’s the use case: Raid 1 disc upgrades to larger disks. All files are already on the larger array and I’m double checking for errors (important files!). For one folder of 1.8TB and over 96K files, Teracopy found 2 errors. For my need, that’s worth the time/effort. Options for a fix: 1. Unattended feature. 2. Command line. 3. Checkmarked verify button applies to skipped files. 4. All of the above.
Johnnyz2 23 days ago
TeraCopy
Completed
Automatically verify skipped files
An older version of Teracopy used to verify skipped files automatically. Now the application stops, even if Verify is checkmarked, and the user must hit next and then hit verify to have it proceed. So, a job I ran last night barely made progress because it was waiting for me to take those steps. Here’s the use case: Raid 1 disc upgrades to larger disks. All files are already on the larger array and I’m double checking for errors (important files!). For one folder of 1.8TB and over 96K files, Teracopy found 2 errors. For my need, that’s worth the time/effort. Options for a fix: 1. Unattended feature. 2. Command line. 3. Checkmarked verify button applies to skipped files. 4. All of the above.
Johnnyz2 23 days ago
TeraCopy
Completed
Add datetime values to output/export logs
Currently, a HTML log will just have the date that the report was generated. It is helpful to have the date and time values for when the job begins and ends. This is helpful for those of us working in digital preservation who want to have logging that satisifies standards such as PREMIS, which requires datetime values for ‘events’.
kieranjol 26 days ago
Feature
TeraCopy
Completed
Add datetime values to output/export logs
Currently, a HTML log will just have the date that the report was generated. It is helpful to have the date and time values for when the job begins and ends. This is helpful for those of us working in digital preservation who want to have logging that satisifies standards such as PREMIS, which requires datetime values for ‘events’.
kieranjol 26 days ago
Feature
TeraCopy
Notification via email
Hi, allow me to suggest the implementation of a new funcion “notifications” this will be useful for users like me who use teracopy for copy and moove of large amount of files on virtual servers (2tb or more), an e-mail with reports will be very usefull, something like … operation complete, this files copied correctly, this are the errors. That funcion will save me a lot of times and avoid me to check the server status every x hours thanks best regards
Alberto 13 days ago
Feature
TeraCopy
Notification via email
Hi, allow me to suggest the implementation of a new funcion “notifications” this will be useful for users like me who use teracopy for copy and moove of large amount of files on virtual servers (2tb or more), an e-mail with reports will be very usefull, something like … operation complete, this files copied correctly, this are the errors. That funcion will save me a lot of times and avoid me to check the server status every x hours thanks best regards
Alberto 13 days ago
Feature
TeraCopy
Moving files under Windows 11 using keyboard
If a user is moving a file, can you please add an option to “ignore teracopy for moves”. eg. If I am using keyboard and I press “CTRL+X” and then move to a new folder using the keyboard and press CTRL+V on the same drive (ie. it will be an instantaneous copy), can we bypass teracopy because it is unnecessary. This will also helpfully stop Explorer from losing focus. When Explorer loses focus, a keyboard user needs to press ALT+TAB to restore the focus back to the Explorer window to move the next file. On that note, teracopy also takes focus from an Explorer window if you’re using the keyboard for any file copy. Can you please allow Explorer to maintain focus if the user is copying a file (eg. CTRL+C, CTRL+V). This means that a user can easily move multiple files via the keyboard without having to ALT+TAB to regain focus of the Explorer window.
wandl 14 days ago
Feature
TeraCopy
Moving files under Windows 11 using keyboard
If a user is moving a file, can you please add an option to “ignore teracopy for moves”. eg. If I am using keyboard and I press “CTRL+X” and then move to a new folder using the keyboard and press CTRL+V on the same drive (ie. it will be an instantaneous copy), can we bypass teracopy because it is unnecessary. This will also helpfully stop Explorer from losing focus. When Explorer loses focus, a keyboard user needs to press ALT+TAB to restore the focus back to the Explorer window to move the next file. On that note, teracopy also takes focus from an Explorer window if you’re using the keyboard for any file copy. Can you please allow Explorer to maintain focus if the user is copying a file (eg. CTRL+C, CTRL+V). This means that a user can easily move multiple files via the keyboard without having to ALT+TAB to regain focus of the Explorer window.
wandl 14 days ago
Feature
TeraCopy
Skip to next file when read speed goes lower than a set threshold?
Is this possible? I have a hard drive that’s in the process of failing and it has literally millions of files on it, and it’s unfeasible to allow reads to fail because there are so many files it’ll take forever. Does or can Teracopy support setting a minimal viable read speed below which it should skip to the next file?
Frank E Bailey 20 days ago
Feature
TeraCopy
Skip to next file when read speed goes lower than a set threshold?
Is this possible? I have a hard drive that’s in the process of failing and it has literally millions of files on it, and it’s unfeasible to allow reads to fail because there are so many files it’ll take forever. Does or can Teracopy support setting a minimal viable read speed below which it should skip to the next file?
Frank E Bailey 20 days ago
Feature
TeraCopy
Bug
This bug has been there for a while. Windows 10. Drag and drop folder into the config window, adds folder but doesn’t capture the information. This has been missing since 3.x.
Alan Eddie About 1 month ago
Issue
Direct Folders
Bug
This bug has been there for a while. Windows 10. Drag and drop folder into the config window, adds folder but doesn’t capture the information. This has been missing since 3.x.
Alan Eddie About 1 month ago
Issue
Direct Folders
Zip/Unzip on copy
Amazing program! When I have to copy thousands of tiny jpeg files to another drive. Terra copy is MUCH faster by still takes awhile. Can we have to option to zip (with NO compression) and unzip after copy. That will speed up the many tiny files on usb problem. I heard that this functionality is available in some UNIX flavors.
Ted Stoffers About 1 month ago
TeraCopy
Zip/Unzip on copy
Amazing program! When I have to copy thousands of tiny jpeg files to another drive. Terra copy is MUCH faster by still takes awhile. Can we have to option to zip (with NO compression) and unzip after copy. That will speed up the many tiny files on usb problem. I heard that this functionality is available in some UNIX flavors.
Ted Stoffers About 1 month ago
TeraCopy
Completed
Title bar with integrated toolbar
Fewer icons in compact mode. Dynamic icons for admin mode and 'on finish' action.
Code Sector 2 months ago
Feature
TeraCopy
Completed
Title bar with integrated toolbar
Fewer icons in compact mode. Dynamic icons for admin mode and 'on finish' action.
Code Sector 2 months ago
Feature
TeraCopy
The ability to scheduled a data move
This way if I want to move data overnight I can do that with a scheduler. Add it as a paid feature and people will purchase the paid version.
Blane Markson About 1 month ago
Feature
TeraCopy
The ability to scheduled a data move
This way if I want to move data overnight I can do that with a scheduler. Add it as a paid feature and people will purchase the paid version.
Blane Markson About 1 month ago
Feature
TeraCopy
255+ character paths cause access violation issues during copy and testing
If a file path exceeds 255, it causes TeraCopy to soft crash with an access violation error. This seems to happen when I move or test content remotely from shares maintained by POSIX systems.
Ole Aldric About 1 month ago
TeraCopy
255+ character paths cause access violation issues during copy and testing
If a file path exceeds 255, it causes TeraCopy to soft crash with an access violation error. This seems to happen when I move or test content remotely from shares maintained by POSIX systems.
Ole Aldric About 1 month ago
TeraCopy
SQL error when remove selected during adding files process.
If I add a full drive as source, Teracopy will add the NTFS folders $RECYCLE.BIN (and other hidden files (like dropbox.driver), if I try to remove them ( I tried this while TeraCopy is adding files) I get the following error: The files and folders I remove is definitively removed from the list as far as I can see, but I am unsure if this is the case in the actual file list in the internal SQL store. Could you shed some light on this issue? What is going on behind the scenes here? Also, can you let me know what steps I can take to ensure that these files are copied over/some hidden issues are being caused in the background?
Ole Aldric About 1 month ago
TeraCopy
SQL error when remove selected during adding files process.
If I add a full drive as source, Teracopy will add the NTFS folders $RECYCLE.BIN (and other hidden files (like dropbox.driver), if I try to remove them ( I tried this while TeraCopy is adding files) I get the following error: The files and folders I remove is definitively removed from the list as far as I can see, but I am unsure if this is the case in the actual file list in the internal SQL store. Could you shed some light on this issue? What is going on behind the scenes here? Also, can you let me know what steps I can take to ensure that these files are copied over/some hidden issues are being caused in the background?
Ole Aldric About 1 month ago
TeraCopy
Copy over customised folder icons
I use customised folder icons to visually differentiate between folders. Perhaps you could consider an option to transfer and configure the icon in the destination folder?
Andrew Jones About 1 month ago
TeraCopy
Copy over customised folder icons
I use customised folder icons to visually differentiate between folders. Perhaps you could consider an option to transfer and configure the icon in the destination folder?
Andrew Jones About 1 month ago
TeraCopy
Completed
Bug copying files to "network ressources" copies files to local drive
I mentioned a serious bug. I added various shares of my NAS to my explorer. As I don't want my windows explorer to be overloaded with various "network drives" (with drive letter!) I added some rarely needed shares via "network ressource" (without drive letter). Network ressources can be found in userprofile here: %USERPROFILE%\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts. Now copying files from your local drive to this network ressource does NOT copy these files to the network share itself, but onto %USERPROFILE%\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts\ \ and the file is still located onto local hard drive. Please see this screenshot:
Marius Boos 2 months ago
Issue
TeraCopy
Completed
Bug copying files to "network ressources" copies files to local drive
I mentioned a serious bug. I added various shares of my NAS to my explorer. As I don't want my windows explorer to be overloaded with various "network drives" (with drive letter!) I added some rarely needed shares via "network ressource" (without drive letter). Network ressources can be found in userprofile here: %USERPROFILE%\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts. Now copying files from your local drive to this network ressource does NOT copy these files to the network share itself, but onto %USERPROFILE%\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts\ \ and the file is still located onto local hard drive. Please see this screenshot:
Marius Boos 2 months ago
Issue
TeraCopy
Planned
Function 'New Folder With Items' Improvement
Hi! I wanted to ask for an improve for the function ‘New Folder With Items’: when you create a new folder due to an installer, for example, it should automatically name that folder with the installer’s name, as the program FileToFlder does (watch the video).
D1mar0n About 2 months ago
TeraCopy
Planned
Function 'New Folder With Items' Improvement
Hi! I wanted to ask for an improve for the function ‘New Folder With Items’: when you create a new folder due to an installer, for example, it should automatically name that folder with the installer’s name, as the program FileToFlder does (watch the video).
D1mar0n About 2 months ago
TeraCopy
Planned
SmallFileBuffer and BigFileBuffer
Following up on previous comments in the multiprocessing feature request thread. One of the most common workloads I have, is copy/move files from local disks to network disks - and back. The payload is usually a mix of millions of small files (10-512KB) and thousands of medium to large files (10MB to 100+GB). Using separate, configurable, buffers for small files could speed up the process greatly.
Ole Aldric 3 months ago
TeraCopy
Planned
SmallFileBuffer and BigFileBuffer
Following up on previous comments in the multiprocessing feature request thread. One of the most common workloads I have, is copy/move files from local disks to network disks - and back. The payload is usually a mix of millions of small files (10-512KB) and thousands of medium to large files (10MB to 100+GB). Using separate, configurable, buffers for small files could speed up the process greatly.
Ole Aldric 3 months ago
TeraCopy
The ability to create rules/order of operations.
Not sure how to better word the title... I want to be able to change the default process, or to automate some handling of things. To set up rules I can swap between. I don't want to get prompted for what to do, I want to set up predetermined rules / order of events. For example... If I copy/move files from one place to another, and there are already files with the same name(s) in the destination, I don't want to be asked if I want to skip or rename. I want it to first, automatically skip those files for last. Then I want it to verify the source/destination files that had the same name. If the files match verification, I want the source files deleted. If the files fail verification, I want the files to be copied/moved and renamed (and if files were moved, for any empty folders from the source location(s) to then be deleted). That's what I wind up doing every time, and I'm just so tired of having to manually go through that process. But, I know that's not how everyone else would like things to function, so I'm just wishing I could create some sort of rules/profile/template/etc that would let me set that as the selected process to use. Hope that makes sense. (I posted this ~4months ago, never got any response, been in review the entire time, resubmitting the request.)
Crim Zind About 2 months ago
Feature
TeraCopy
The ability to create rules/order of operations.
Not sure how to better word the title... I want to be able to change the default process, or to automate some handling of things. To set up rules I can swap between. I don't want to get prompted for what to do, I want to set up predetermined rules / order of events. For example... If I copy/move files from one place to another, and there are already files with the same name(s) in the destination, I don't want to be asked if I want to skip or rename. I want it to first, automatically skip those files for last. Then I want it to verify the source/destination files that had the same name. If the files match verification, I want the source files deleted. If the files fail verification, I want the files to be copied/moved and renamed (and if files were moved, for any empty folders from the source location(s) to then be deleted). That's what I wind up doing every time, and I'm just so tired of having to manually go through that process. But, I know that's not how everyone else would like things to function, so I'm just wishing I could create some sort of rules/profile/template/etc that would let me set that as the selected process to use. Hope that makes sense. (I posted this ~4months ago, never got any response, been in review the entire time, resubmitting the request.)
Crim Zind About 2 months ago
Feature
TeraCopy
LTO Tape Transfer Issues - normal transfer speed but slow verification, and pauses
Tried 3.17 and 3.8.5 with IBM LTO6 drive, LTFS, Windows Two questions 1. In both cases writing ~100 10GB files went well at expected LTO6 speed at 160MB/s But verification of data is very slow at 80-100MB/s Any explanation and how to improve this Async file transfer DISABLED System write cache ENABLED 2. Sidenote: when writing to LTO, every now and then roughly every 200GB, the transfer pauses for a while and less than 20 seconds later, transfer resumes - and at full speed. Doubt its shoe shining Any tips to modify the options and etc so I can get the best out of the software? Many thanks
mrhyde About 2 months ago
TeraCopy
LTO Tape Transfer Issues - normal transfer speed but slow verification, and pauses
Tried 3.17 and 3.8.5 with IBM LTO6 drive, LTFS, Windows Two questions 1. In both cases writing ~100 10GB files went well at expected LTO6 speed at 160MB/s But verification of data is very slow at 80-100MB/s Any explanation and how to improve this Async file transfer DISABLED System write cache ENABLED 2. Sidenote: when writing to LTO, every now and then roughly every 200GB, the transfer pauses for a while and less than 20 seconds later, transfer resumes - and at full speed. Doubt its shoe shining Any tips to modify the options and etc so I can get the best out of the software? Many thanks
mrhyde About 2 months ago
TeraCopy
TeraCopy doesn't place files in the correct position on desktop
I'm using TeraCopy 3.17 on Windows 10. I'm not sure if it is even possible to fix this, but whenever I move a file from a folder to the desktop, the file is placed in the first empty space found in the grid, rather than the exact position where I dropped it, as Windows File Explorer does. A quick search led me to this post, but unlike what the top answer states, the icons positions on my computer are stored in the IconLayouts registry key, rather than ItemPosXXXxXXX. I'm guessing that the position of new icons will have to be calculated based on the cursor's position when the transfer started, and the desktop boundaries might also have to be taken into account, which would probably make matters more complex. Hopefully I'm missing an easier solution.
Alex 3 months ago
Issue
TeraCopy
TeraCopy doesn't place files in the correct position on desktop
I'm using TeraCopy 3.17 on Windows 10. I'm not sure if it is even possible to fix this, but whenever I move a file from a folder to the desktop, the file is placed in the first empty space found in the grid, rather than the exact position where I dropped it, as Windows File Explorer does. A quick search led me to this post, but unlike what the top answer states, the icons positions on my computer are stored in the IconLayouts registry key, rather than ItemPosXXXxXXX. I'm guessing that the position of new icons will have to be calculated based on the cursor's position when the transfer started, and the desktop boundaries might also have to be taken into account, which would probably make matters more complex. Hopefully I'm missing an easier solution.
Alex 3 months ago
Issue
TeraCopy
TeraCopy Pro 4.0 Alpha: Sluggish interface during copy/move and other observations.
I've been working with the new alpha for a month now. Here are some observations I have noticed. These observations are made during large copy/move jobs with millions of files of various size (1KB to 400GB). With 32X 512Kb buffer size on 16 threads. I also use SHA256 hash for verification. TeraCopy is installed in Program Files as per usual. Sluggish interface While a job is running, the interface will hang or become very sluggish if I interact with it. Any operation (opening settings, about in the main interface or changing between file list, target, options, status or log in on a particular job - as well as navigating between jobs) seems to bring the app to a halt for a few seconds. Large/small file size combination will still only run in single-thread mode If the copy/move job contains a mix of large or small files, the app will go into single-thread mode. As far as I can see, it will stay in this mode for the duration. Pausing or stopping the job does not always work When during a large copy/move operation, if the user tries to pause or stop the operations. This can sometimes never occur, the app has to be killed from the task manager to actually stop. This could be related to the same issues as the sluggish behaviour above. Copy to LTFS does not deactivate NTFS-streams automatically. I know this is not directly linked to the Alpha, nor is it a technical issue per se, but it is worth mentioning anyway. If a job has a LTFS target or any other target that does not have support for NTFS streams. TeraCopy will still copy over the stream files. This is of course helpful if what you want is to copy ADS, but in most cases, we don't. For now we have to set this as default behaviour for all copies and re-enable it when doing NTFS to NTFS copy/move jobs. A choice list with formats would be helpful here.
Ole Aldric 3 months ago
TeraCopy
TeraCopy Pro 4.0 Alpha: Sluggish interface during copy/move and other observations.
I've been working with the new alpha for a month now. Here are some observations I have noticed. These observations are made during large copy/move jobs with millions of files of various size (1KB to 400GB). With 32X 512Kb buffer size on 16 threads. I also use SHA256 hash for verification. TeraCopy is installed in Program Files as per usual. Sluggish interface While a job is running, the interface will hang or become very sluggish if I interact with it. Any operation (opening settings, about in the main interface or changing between file list, target, options, status or log in on a particular job - as well as navigating between jobs) seems to bring the app to a halt for a few seconds. Large/small file size combination will still only run in single-thread mode If the copy/move job contains a mix of large or small files, the app will go into single-thread mode. As far as I can see, it will stay in this mode for the duration. Pausing or stopping the job does not always work When during a large copy/move operation, if the user tries to pause or stop the operations. This can sometimes never occur, the app has to be killed from the task manager to actually stop. This could be related to the same issues as the sluggish behaviour above. Copy to LTFS does not deactivate NTFS-streams automatically. I know this is not directly linked to the Alpha, nor is it a technical issue per se, but it is worth mentioning anyway. If a job has a LTFS target or any other target that does not have support for NTFS streams. TeraCopy will still copy over the stream files. This is of course helpful if what you want is to copy ADS, but in most cases, we don't. For now we have to set this as default behaviour for all copies and re-enable it when doing NTFS to NTFS copy/move jobs. A choice list with formats would be helpful here.
Ole Aldric 3 months ago
TeraCopy