Microsoft Making File Copying Better in Windows 8

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Great, finally windows is trying to keep up with what Gnome, KDE, Mac OSX etc has been doing for years!
 
KDE4 And Gnome have both had all of the copies in one dialog box for years, so has OS X since tiger I believe, so that should have been there in windows 7 and even vista honestly. Same story with the pause feature and the transfer rates.

The only "new" and semi innovative thing is the graph, which isn't really that cool anyway.

The copy comparison box for name collisions that was displayed above id definitively also a feature of Ubuntu 11 and OS X Snow Leopard.

Honestly and frankly this is just catching up to their competitors, and there are a lot more features that will be in windows 8 i'm sure that will just be catching up in the realm of UI. This is a good start but still far from making me want a M$ OS.

-The system footprint and structure is faulty and needs overhaul, with security and long term performance maintainability in mind. See Unix based systems, instead of the registry.

-The File system needs more stability with redundancy and data integrity in mind. See ZFS and XFS

- Applications shouldn't be a web of files and folders but rather a package to be expanded, see unix based systems.

- Better Device integration backbone. There shouldn't have to be an application running in the background waiting for a device to connect to act(i.e itunes helper, dell, RIM,). they should model that off of the push system.

M$ is finally realizing they do have to compete in order to maintain their market.
 
Looks good... massive copies will no longer have to babysat! Looking forward to Windows 8 a little more now... Of course... I'd like to get on Windows 7 first...
 
Very cool and useful information. I would also like for them to change the 'Select power plan' menu in the task bar to have 3 radio buttons again like back in Vista (the only thing Vista was better at than W7). High Performance, Balanced (user defined) and Power Saver...
 


Wow, the things in this thread that people don't know that windows CAN ALREADY DO.

Sure - they aren't the default, but they can be done in Windows, some of them since Win98.

Hint: You can add as many other power plans as you like, and they will show up on the taskbar power plan menu. I have four on my brand new laptop that I just got last week. I created the other two for gaming (Max everything, even more than the default High Performance) and another very low power, long battery life use.
 


Could you explain how?

Back when W7 just came out, there was no way to do this. It was a pretty big annoyance. I had to install a 3rd party app to get all the power plans I wanted, and that app expired after 2 weeks without a 'donation'. I didn't like doing that when that was original functionality in the OS I upgraded from.

I don't like having to click 4 times just to access the Power Options screen when in Vista I could just hover over the battery icon and change between 3 or more plans...

I do currently have 5 power plans configured right now, but I am still only able to see 2 of those at a time: 1) Balanced (default) and 2) the last custom plan used, usually High Performance (default) or Super Power Saver (Custom).
 
I wonder where they got the idea of showing all of the copy operations being shown in 1 dialog. Doesn't LINUX do this already?
 
oh god, no! so, they're telling me that if i copy my 1000's of files from work I will have to make checkmarks for every single file if it happens that some files are most up-to-date in one folder and other files in the other folder?! that has always been a pain in the rear and now became even more atrocious!
why can't they retain the click-sensitive boxes that they have currently instead? put a clickable box around the left and the right file, and perhaps one in the middle to keep both files...
or better yet, have a more sophisticated function where you can select a criterion to govern the replacements, such as 'most current'; sync programs can do that, why can't MS implement that into the box?!
 
Hey Linux people, let's play some videogames in windows live... oh! I'm sorry, YOU CAN'T !
 
MS? Actually listening to their customers and improving their OS with the advice?

IT MUST BE A TRAP!
 
And here I thought this article was going to list off actual better coding when copying files. Nothing slows down a good file copy like having lots of small files that windows amateurishly copies one at a time, reading and writing instead of read caching many files at a time and then writing them. Often times backing up a user's data hard drive to hard drive involves getting around USB 1.0 speeds due to thousands of small files. We shouldn't need to use 3rd party programs for faster file copying.
 


Yeah, that's one thing that REALLY pisses me off. But Linux does it too, and I rarely copy lots of small files... can't even imagine a scenario where I have to... much more often, movies, photos and music (small amounts, so no slowing down 😛). If you want to bypass the stuff, I'd suggest sending all your small files into a RAR without compression and sending it... should be treated like one big file, I think.
 
At last finally no more dumb moving icons!!! Only took them 20 years! LOL Bet they put them back in windows 9
 
Microsoft has changes planned for the way Windows 8 handles the copying and moving of files.. Windows 8 will display all copy jobs in a single dialog instead of multiple ones.. Microsoft has also added the ability to pause and resume copy jobs and cancel them..
 
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