Slow copy of small size files

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Hi,

In my Windowns 2000 client system copy of small size files is very very slow. For copying 810 small size file of 2 kb size, it takes 45 minutes(Local to Local copy).

File extention is .js.

Also this makes the deployment of ear file slow containing these files.

Thanks in advance
Kirit

 

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Hi, Kirit.

HOW are you copying the files? From the GUI?

On my standalone PC, I like to use the "DOS" window and the old Xcopy.exe
utility for this kind of project. Just:
xcopy C:\Folder1\*.js X:\Folder2

Xcopy goes back to MS-DOS days. The Copy command would move a single file
at a time, doing all the directory and FAT housekeeping between each copy.
Xcopy would copy as many files as the computer's memory could hold, then do
all the housekeeping in a sort of "batch" mode, speeding up the process.
(At least, that's how I understood the process, but I'm an accountant, not a
techie, so the details may be a little fuzzy.)

As usual in the "DOS" window, type xcopy /? to see the syntax and a list of
all the switches available with the command.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP

"Kirit" <sonu_04@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1D167FBB-7CEF-4B27-A127-C1589BC94200@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> In my Windowns 2000 client system copy of small size files is very very
> slow. For copying 810 small size file of 2 kb size, it takes 45
> minutes(Local to Local copy).
>
> File extention is .js.
>
> Also this makes the deployment of ear file slow containing these files.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Kirit