On 06/11/2020 15:22, tim... wrote:


"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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On 06 Nov 2020 at 12:22:43 GMT, "Jim GM4 DHJ ..."

wrote:

I have all my stuff on a 1tb external drive....yesterday I bought
another to back it up...doing it at the moment and it says it will
take three and a half hours is this correct or is there a quicker way
of transferring ?

Unless you give us some ****ing DETAILS we'll just watch and larf at you.

Is this just a drag/drop copy?

why should whether you dragged it or not, make any difference to a
disk-to-disk copy.

Because you incur significant overhead on file creation - especially
with lots of small files, when compared to say a disk clone style copy.

Also windows will also spend sometimes significant amounts of time
enumerating the directory tree you are copying so that it can give you a
progress dialogue with an estimate of total time - so that slower than
doing robocopy from the command line for example.





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Cheers,

John.

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