"Explorerforcopy" - possibility of greater flexibi

pastone · Post by *pastone » 2003-06-30, 11:49 UTC

A suggestion relating to the Explorerforcopy setting in the .ini file.

Usefully I prefer TC's own copy/move operation. But with a USB external driver or a CDRW drive it is more reliable to switch on the Explorerforcopy setting.

Would it be possible (in the next release, perhaps) to allow switching on the setting, but only for specified target drives - e.g. F: and G: ?

Regards,
Peter Stone

Post by *Hacker » 2003-06-30, 11:51 UTC

Just FYI, you can use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to copy something the explorer way.

HTH
Roman

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2003-07-01, 08:21 UTC

pastone wrote:But with a USB external driver or a CDRW drive it is more reliable to switch on the Explorerforcopy setting.

Hi Peter. Why do you say that? I use TCmd with a USB flash drive without having the Explorerforcopy setting in my .ini and i have not noticed any problems...

pastone · Post by *pastone » 2003-07-01, 09:20 UTC

I am using a Pockey 10gb external drive (using USB 1.1). Copying a few files is no problem, but if I want to copy a directory containing (say) 300mb, being a fresh compressed backup of important data, it is more reliable to use the Explorer method.

I am not suggesting that TC is at fault. The Pockey driver may be less than perfect.

Regards,
Peter

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2003-07-02, 11:12 UTC

Ok. Thanx for the info.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2003-07-03, 12:48 UTC

I am using a Pockey 10gb external drive (using USB 1.1). Copying a few files is no problem, but if I want to copy a directory containing (say) 300mb, being a fresh compressed backup of important data, it is more reliable to use the Explorer method.

Hmm, did you encounter any problems? I also have an external USB harddisk for frequent backups (monthly go to CD-R), and copying to the USB harddisk has never been a problem with TC...

pastone · Post by *pastone » 2003-07-03, 20:59 UTC

Yes, problems with writing errors being reported, and writing seeming to get stuck.

These problems seem to have arisen since I began using Windows XP Pro. I don't recall such problems when using Windows 98.

Regards,
Peter Stone

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2003-07-07, 10:03 UTC

I see - Total Commander 6.0 will support CopyFileEx as an option for certain drives - this is a standard function, and it may work better with problematic drives than my own copy loop. And this way I will also be able to support file comments, which are not supported with ExplorerForCopy.

pastone · Post by *pastone » 2003-07-07, 21:43 UTC

Thank you.

Regards,
Peter Stone

"Explorerforcopy" - possibility of greater flexibi

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