"Xcopy is choking," Elias admitted. "It keeps timing out. And the network throughput is terrible. It’s using maybe 10% of the bandwidth."
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: The tool allows users to pause a copy operation and resume it later. If a network connection is lost, RichCopy can often pick up exactly where it left off, preventing the need to restart the entire process.
Elias watched the destination drive. The folders were appearing rapidly, the file counts ticking upward aggressively. He saw a file fail—it was locked by a user.
The screen glowed in the dark room, the progress bar sitting at a satisfying 100%.
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Elias clicked 'Run'.
"No," Silas corrected. "It paused. It logged the error. And look at the other threads—they're still going. It didn't kill the whole job just because of one bad apple. It just sidelined it."
RichCopy supports incremental file copying. When re-copying a folder, it can compare source and destination files by date, size, or attributes and only copy new or modified files. It also includes a "delta copy" feature that attempts to copy only changed portions of a file (similar to rsync ), though this works best with certain file types.
"RichCopy isn't just copying," Silas explained, tapping the glass where file names were scrolling by in a blur—three, four, ten at a time. "It’s parallel processing. It’s opening multiple simultaneous connections to the server. While thread one is waiting for a file to open, thread two is already shunting the next file. It's not a pipeline; it's a flood."
| Feature | File Explorer | Robocopy | RichCopy | |---------|--------------|----------|----------| | Graphical Interface | Yes | No | Yes | | Multi-threaded | No | Yes (since Windows 8) | Yes | | Error resilience | Low | High | High | | Delta copy | No | No | Yes | | Built-in scheduler | No | No (needs Task Scheduler) | Yes | | Microsoft support | Yes | Yes | No (discontinued) |
