Use RichCopy all the time.  Seems to work well.

BF

-----Original Message-----
From: Rubens Almeida [mailto:rubensalme...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 2:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: File Copier with GUI?

Has anyone tried RichCopy? They say it's like a graphical interface of 
robocopy...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Andrew S. Baker <asbz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For me, these aren't one-off problems... They happen often enough, 
> with only minor detail differences.
> I have a script (acopy.bat) that I use to copy files from one location 
> to another.  You could call it as follows:
> for %v in (dir1 dir2 dir3 dir4) do acopy "\\source\share\%~v" 
> "\\destination\share\%~v"
>
> http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/Scripts/?File=aCopy.BAT
>
> It is based on XCOPY
> ...OR...
> You could use XCOPY/ROBOCOPY to copy everything and exclude the 
> folders or file types that you don't care about.
>
> Easy enough to put together in 10-15 min, max
>
> In contrast, this thread is now over an hour old.
>
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>
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>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Paul Hutchings 
> <paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> You know the scenario, you need to copy a few hundred gigs worth of 
>> specific sub directories from A to B.
>>
>>
>>
>> Robocopy is probably ideal but it's a PITA to script all those folder 
>> paths for a one-time operation, and if you do a ctrl-select and set 
>> the copy off from Windows Explorer you can be pretty sure you're 
>> going to walk in the next day to find it's got a problem with a 
>> single file half way through so it's cancelled the whole operation 
>> (with no real clue what and why it happened).
>>
>>
>>
>> So, what do you use?
>>
>>
>>
>> I've tried Rich Copy which looks great, but in reality it just 
>> doesn't seem to work very well with multiple source folders.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul
>>
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