Problem with copying big files within Win98

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Steve Wade - 07 Apr 2006 20:09 GMT

Hi Guys,

If I try and copy a large folder from one drive to another, with a drag and
drop or sendto option, the copying starts but right at the end, when the
progress bar looks 100%, the numbers indicating the number of minutes to
completion, go into the many thousands.

What might cause this?

Dragging and dropping or using the sendto function one file at a time, works
okay and is the only option.

Thanks!

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Ron Badour - 08 Apr 2006 16:31 GMT

How big are the files you are trying to transfer and how many are you trying
to transfer at one time?

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Steve Wade - 09 Apr 2006 21:24 GMT

> How big are the files you are trying to transfer and how many are you trying
> to transfer at one time?

How big = 30gig

How many = 12

Thanks.

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Jeff Richards - 09 Apr 2006 22:51 GMT

How long have you waited at the end of the copy, and does the time estimate
go down? Windows leaves a lot of internal updating until the end of the
copy (you can notice the delay even on much smaller copy volumes) and it's
possible that the time estimate is simply way off when the files are this
large, and it won't take anything like what it's estimating.

Try running a CPU performance monitor to confirm that the system is still
working hard, rather than hanging.

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Ron Badour - 10 Apr 2006 02:29 GMT

W98 is limited to 4 gb files--no way can it handle a 30 gb file.

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dadiOH - 10 Apr 2006 14:27 GMT

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No idea but it happens to me too and I suspect some sort of arithmetical
error due to the size/quantities. Regardless of the messed up "time to
completion", the copy completes OK. YMMV

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