mattie_shoes
Because I'm bored
I'm transferring my data over ethernet onto my new computer. 100 megabit sounds fast until you try and transfer 100 gig :-(
I'm not a Microsoft hater. Hell, I did tech support for them once upon a time. But I have to wonder, why is it that windows copy is so terrible at copying bunches of files? Am I the only one that copies files frequently? If not, why hasn't anybody over there said "hey wait a minute, this could totally help our users complete a task they do with some regularity...
Say I tell it to copy these 200,000 files to there --->
It copies them one at a time, until it hits file 74,381 of 200,000, and for some reason, that file is inaccessible. So it throws an error message and STOPS COPYING FILES.
Now I have 200,000 files HERE and 74,380 files THERE, but I have no way of knowing which files were copied and which weren't.... It doesn't seem to copy them in any obvious order like alphabetically.
If it was going for atomicity, it fails. Atomicity is a database term that means all the tasks in a transaction are done, or none of them -- no stopping in the middle. It'd make sense for file copying, but it's not overly user friendly.
If they're going to say "fuck atomicity in the name of ease of use!", then why the fuck doesn't it finish copying files, THEN tell me about the files it couldn't copy for some reason? Then I could glance at the list and say "these are all system files that I never wanted to copy anyway but Windows is too fucking dumb to keep their hidden system files out of directories I use."
Yeah, that's another pet peeve of mine. Fuck you and your thumbs.db file and your zdThumbnail.info file and your system volume information folder and your recycler folder... I don't expect windows to not have shit like that, but how hard is it to keep them somewhere ELSE, like it does with Temporary Internet Files?
Okay, so some of the files are copied, and some aren't. I select the 200,000 files, UN-select the one file it can't copy, then restart the copy. I get a dialog box complaining because it already copied the file in question, so it needs to know whether to skip that file, or overwrite the destination file. So they give me buttons "Yes" (overwrite), "No" (skip), "Yes to All" (overwrite all), and Cancel. Do you see the problem?
The files that have already been copied don't need to be recopied and overwritten. So what I REALLY want is "No to All", which is the ONE ANSWER THEY DIDN'T PROVIDE. Fuckers!
So I resign myself to extra waiting and click "Yes to All" so it copies over everything again. And I walk away. I come back 10 minutes later and it's asking me THE SAME QUESTION. What part of all didn't you understand, you sorry piece of shit?
Because I'm bored
I'm transferring my data over ethernet onto my new computer. 100 megabit sounds fast until you try and transfer 100 gig :-(
I'm not a Microsoft hater. Hell, I did tech support for them once upon a time. But I have to wonder, why is it that windows copy is so terrible at copying bunches of files? Am I the only one that copies files frequently? If not, why hasn't anybody over there said "hey wait a minute, this could totally help our users complete a task they do with some regularity...
Say I tell it to copy these 200,000 files to there --->
It copies them one at a time, until it hits file 74,381 of 200,000, and for some reason, that file is inaccessible. So it throws an error message and STOPS COPYING FILES.
Now I have 200,000 files HERE and 74,380 files THERE, but I have no way of knowing which files were copied and which weren't.... It doesn't seem to copy them in any obvious order like alphabetically.
If it was going for atomicity, it fails. Atomicity is a database term that means all the tasks in a transaction are done, or none of them -- no stopping in the middle. It'd make sense for file copying, but it's not overly user friendly.
If they're going to say "fuck atomicity in the name of ease of use!", then why the fuck doesn't it finish copying files, THEN tell me about the files it couldn't copy for some reason? Then I could glance at the list and say "these are all system files that I never wanted to copy anyway but Windows is too fucking dumb to keep their hidden system files out of directories I use."
Yeah, that's another pet peeve of mine. Fuck you and your thumbs.db file and your zdThumbnail.info file and your system volume information folder and your recycler folder... I don't expect windows to not have shit like that, but how hard is it to keep them somewhere ELSE, like it does with Temporary Internet Files?
Okay, so some of the files are copied, and some aren't. I select the 200,000 files, UN-select the one file it can't copy, then restart the copy. I get a dialog box complaining because it already copied the file in question, so it needs to know whether to skip that file, or overwrite the destination file. So they give me buttons "Yes" (overwrite), "No" (skip), "Yes to All" (overwrite all), and Cancel. Do you see the problem?
The files that have already been copied don't need to be recopied and overwritten. So what I REALLY want is "No to All", which is the ONE ANSWER THEY DIDN'T PROVIDE. Fuckers!
So I resign myself to extra waiting and click "Yes to All" so it copies over everything again. And I walk away. I come back 10 minutes later and it's asking me THE SAME QUESTION. What part of all didn't you understand, you sorry piece of shit?