
I am currently using 2.0 beta 4 and for some reason I decided to upgrade to the stable v2.0.1. But, as more than one commenters have pointed out, TeraCopy is more than handy if you are dealing with large file sets. It true that Vista SP1 onwards, the native copy program shipped with Vista has improved in terms of speed. I have been using TeraCopy on Vista for already more than a year now. The increased transfer speed thanks to more efficient and copy handling is just a big bonus on top of that 😉Ĭomment is from Five Best Alternative File Copiers article on LifeHacker. Using one of the above copiers ensures, at minimum, that when transferring lots of files you don’t end up tearing your hair out. You can attempt to compare the files on the external disk to the files on your computer and carefully select only the ones that didn’t copy properly, but that’s a huge pain in the ass and if you’re not careful you might miss an important file. You come back 3 hours later and it’s frozen and you have no idea which files have been copied. You start the copy, watch the little pages fly between the two folders and marvel at how Windows insists it will take some absurd amount of time like 88 days to copy your data. Let’s say you’re copying your entire MP3 collection to an external drive for safe keeping.

You can test free version to see it yourself. Any comments on this article before I buy the product? This guy tested TeraCopy against Vista’s native explorer and says TeraCopy is no longer relevant.
