Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: what is the fastest command line copy? Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:35:10 +0100 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net exXM41Nopy0LxWYtn05bCAsE9D1ZdJH8F25vUFidD39E70LKny Cancel-Lock: sha1:BdznTf6vIZ5/LnYFwUOptstCjZw= sha256:cyrHVNxJ0R7TBErulnwUKMwx9d/O715Vg3pkThkZDCo= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:18128 Stan Brown wrote: > Andy Burns wrote: > >> Paul wrote: >> >>> Robocopy is a standard part of the OS now, and is maintained. >>> >> It's great, but they haven't removed the bear-traps ... > > By which you mean what, pray tell? you've seen Paul mention the main one /mir forgetting to set the retry count and retry timeout, can mean it wastes huge amounts of time doing nothing I probably forgot others,