Copy Files quickly from a mapped network drive

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Can anyone tell me how to quickly copy Files from a mapped network drive?

The windows Copy Paste works very slow and hampers the performance of the system.

I have used XCOPY source destination /i /s /z /q

This was quick enough and copied a few files and later threw an error "The specified network name not available"

I remember somebody using a workaround to copy files quickly from mapped networked drive.

Can any one suggest me a way to do this?

I use Windows XP, so please don't suggest me RoboCopy.

I have the same problem but with windows 2000. I hope someone will answer... — pgras, Feb 02 '09 at 12:20

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 02 '09 at 12:25

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RoboCopy works fine on WinXP. The Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit that contains RoboCopy installs fine on XP.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

answered Feb 02 '09 at 12:25

andynormancx

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 02 '09 at 12:27

There is no reliable, fast and simple way to copy files between Windows computers using only the tools that come with the OS.

Your options are:

Unison
RoboCopy (See this article with instructions on XP)
rsync (comes with Cygwin)

Note that you can download the Windows 2003 server tools and unpack them on XP. It will work on XP.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 02 '09 at 14:02

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I have found that Total Commander is significantly faster than any of the built-in copy mechanisms, including when copying files over the network.

answered Feb 02 '09 at 14:02

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 13 '12 at 14:01

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use Ipmessanger I can copy at 55 MB /Sec (SATA2 7200 RPMS HDD on both PC's) on my Gigabit Ethernet

answered Jan 13 '12 at 14:01

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Can you provide a link ? (I think there is a typo in the name) – ixe013 Oct 26 '12 at 15:58

Copy Files quickly from a mapped network drive

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