I am testing this now and wanted to hear if anybody else found this and is using it ? My first comment about it is that the gui is a bit weird and confusing with regards to saving the copy jobs. RichCopy has a single but significant shortcoming: It. RoboCopy, but it's wrapped in a radically more user friendly GUI. It is a much better method of copying large datasets or lots of files across.

By luck I stumbeled over a new copy utility called RichCopy this utility supports threading meaning it can copy many files at the same time instead of copying files one at a time and it has a lot of advanced options. FastCopy isn't pretty, but it is, as the name implies, quite speedy. Robocopy is a robust file copying program built into Windows similar to UNIX rsync. But not wanting to take the risk of corrupting files I was going to use RoboCopy so I searched for it. So I only use it to copy from one internal drive to another internal drive.īut now I wanted to setup backup to an external drive too. On my new Vista 64 bit machine I installed the latest 64 bit version of SyncToy however this version has a known issue when copying to external NAS devices.

On my old photo pc I am using Synctoy 1.4.0.0 to copy my photo folders to an external hardisk and that works just fine.

Fastcopy vs robocopy