Copy Files quickly from a mapped network drive
Solution 1
RoboCopy works fine on WinXP. The Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit that contains RoboCopy installs fine on XP.
Solution 2
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.
user46795
Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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user46795 almost 2 years
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.