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Documenting how screwed up Vista REALLY is with file transfering

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Old 08-30-2008   #1 (permalink)
TruthSquad
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Documenting how screwed up Vista REALLY is with file transfering

Visit Google and you seen countless references to how poorly Vista
sometimes moves/copies files using Windows Explorer. The logical
conclusion is Microsoft added some hyped up phony so-called "security"
routines passing all or at least some files through elaborate
filtering as a precursor to actually moving the files. Why, Microsoft
doesn't say. Likely some stupidity checking file permission and/or
kowtowing to the music industry and the Hollywood crowd looking in
files with Digital Rights Management issues or some such similar
spying.

As PROOF Windows Explorer is screwed up consider the following
experiment.

As part of my backup routine I make full backups of all videos I've
obtained as new, have worked on or finished, moving each to separate
folders across several internal and externals drives.

Here's this week's activity:

385 total video files totaling 49.7 gigabytes. Picking 10 of these
files at random and moving them from their source folder to their
final destination folder using Windows Explorer the average transfer
speed according to Vista itself by clicking on the show more
information tab varied from 14.4 MB a second to 38.3 a second. That's
a pitifully slow 864 MB a minute to 2,298 per minute max on super fast
SATA-2 drives running off a SATA controller with the latest Vista
certified drivers.

Now watch what happens when you don't use Windows Explorer. My
application of choice for backing up is Bounce Back which makes
straight copies of or simply moves the actual file. No disk imaging or
cloning involved.

According to Bounce Back's summary it took only 17.15 minutes to move
the entire 49.7 gigabytes worth of files which is roughly 3 GB a
minute or way faster than Vista can do it itself.

Microsoft has tuned Vista to perform? Hardly. Not when some third
party application can move files way faster than Vista can itself.
Since copying/moving files is a core feature of any operating system
and a fundamentally simple task it again calls into question just how
dumb Microsoft's programmer are when some third party application can
move files way faster and in the process give file details and show
ACCURATE information as to time remaining to move the balance of files
in a batch operation giving ACCURATE second by second progress.

Conclusion: The more you known how poorly Vista performs the more you
confirm how screwed up Vista really is.

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Old 08-30-2008   #2 (permalink)
Steve Thackery
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Re: Documenting how screwed up Vista REALLY is with file transfering

I agree - they really cocked up the file copy/move code in Vista. It's
really weird - it definitely wasn't broken in XP, there was simply no need
to fix it.

But it's a stretch to condemn all of Vista just because of this one problem
area. Apart from file copying I'm very pleased with its performance.

SteveT

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Old 08-30-2008   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Documenting how screwed up Vista REALLY is with file transfering

On Aug 30, 2:45*pm, "Steve Thackery" <nob...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:

> I agree - they really cocked up the file copy/move code in Vista. *It's
> really weird - it definitely wasn't broken in XP, there was simply no need
> to fix it.
>
> But it's a stretch to condemn all of Vista just because of this one problem
> area. *Apart from file copying I'm very pleased with its performance.
>
> SteveT
I keep finding problems and reading of other problems others are
having.
It may rarely crash but so what. It fails to do what it is told.
I can't even delete all the files I need to. And I've had to
download programs to cover functions the Vista OS no longer
handles.

I regret not getting a Mac. Assuming a Mac is better.
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