Ivan
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| posted on 2/6/15 at 10:42 AM |
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Very slow file transfer rates
I normally copy my Outlook directory from my Desktop (Win 7) to my laptop (Win 8.1) and vice versa via a USB 3 backup drive and the process takes a
few minutes but this time it is taking like a whole day.
As this is the only way I can keep both machines directories synced it's driving me mad - I have uninstalled Malwarebytes and closed down all
security software and checked that ram is OK - any advice available.
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jeffw
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| posted on 2/6/15 at 11:11 AM |
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Not sure why you are having issues today but I've used this
http://www.synchpst.com/
before for clients who want to synch their outlook datafiles.
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Ivan
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| posted on 2/6/15 at 11:53 AM |
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Thanks - I don't want to spend the money - I had a look on Task manager and don't see any active processe athat could be slowing things
down - it seems to get stuck on the data type files so I suspect some form of hidden security check but can't find out what it is.
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Slimy38
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| posted on 2/6/15 at 12:31 PM |
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If it's a single directory that you copy, I'd suggest using a DOS window, I find it's a little quicker and more reliable than the
traditional Windows drag and drop.
The other thing I see slowing file transfers down is the number of files. Windows really doesn't like lots of small files, it seems to work much
harder than a single file of the same size. I often use a zip file to transfer large numbers of small files.
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Ivan
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| posted on 2/6/15 at 03:01 PM |
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Thanks for that - to clarify a bit more - the process has always taken around 2-3 minutes to copy around 10GB of data using Terracopy and selecting
"only replace older files" but all of a sudden it froze - I uninstalled it and used the DOS process but the larger that 2GB bakup files
and Outlook Data files are taking about 6 to 15 hours each instead of the normal few minutes.
Maybe it's some new update in Windows that is causing the problem.
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Slimy38
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| posted on 2/6/15 at 03:47 PM |
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Device drivers perhaps? That sort of speed is certainly within the realms of USB 3, but if something has messed them up then Windows might be dropping
to USB 2 (or even 1!).
Might be worth deleting the drivers, connecting the drive and letting Windows refresh them?
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