Saturday, November 15, 2008

Useful File System Tools for Windows

Here are two useful file system tools for Windows that really make a difference:
  1. TeraCopy
    Did it ever happen to you that you copied a large tree containing lots of small files and near the end a file has made some kind of error (e.g. not enough space) that stopped the process and you had to start from scratch?

    Or that you had to copy files from one partition to another when both sit on the same physical drive and it was terribly slow?

    Try TeraCopy, you really won't regret it...

  2. Link Shell Extension
    I still haven't tried it, but it's the reason I decided to write, because I really missed the hard link feature (and its variations) in windows. For instance: you have pictures that you've taken and didn't backup yet, and the pictures that you've already backed up. You want both old and new pics to be in the "Pics" folder, but you also want the new pics to be in the "To Burn" folder. Link Shell Extension solves the problem using the "hardlink clone" feature that copies the folder structure putting the new picture albums on the same folder level as the old ones, but using hard links as the files.

    Junction Link Magic is supposed to have similar functionality.

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