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Originally Posted by rebl
Any ideeas? Thank you.
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I personally use Total Commander when on Windows, not explorer. Lots of plugins, fantastic functionality. And ... I began my career working in DOS, using Norton Commander so I consider a two-panel file manager THE right way to do things ;-)
When I want to copy huge Calibre Library folder, or an archive with lots of photos on Windows I use program robocopy.exe
Robocopy is a utility provided by Microsoft - it is improved version of program called treecopy found in DOS and early versions of Windows.
Robocopy is a commandline utility and can considerably speed up copying of huge trees of folders. You can even resume copying or tell it to refresh your copy (not to copy over existing files if they are not older, for example). There are some graphical front-ends for robocopy, but they are not much of an improvement on the commandline.
I use Calibre on Linux and there I use Krusader as my file manager. Not those explorer-lookalike programs provided with KDE or Gnome or whatever Desktop environment.
For backup of my Calibre Library folders and other things that contain I use rsync. There is nice graphical front-end for rsync called grsync.
One possibility of how to drastically improve speed of such operations is to buy an SSD disk.