On 26 May 2010, "GS" <>
wrote in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:
> any one has experience using both richcopy and robocopy
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m...tilityspotligh
> t.aspx is the richcopy really that much better than robocopy gui
> on vista or win7?
Richcopy is tons faster than Robocopy, because it can spawn multiple
simultaneous copying operations. Robocopy operates serially, one copy,
then the next, and so on. However, Richcopy is buggy as hell, and some
of the documented switches do NOT work as advertised. As far as I can
tell, Richcopy is not being developed or maintained any more, so I
guess no fixes are coming.
It's been a year or so, so I don't remember what the exact problem was.
Something like,it would still copy directories even when they were
explicit excluded.
So, depending on what you're trying to accomplish, Richcopy might be a
good choice, but test it thoroughly because it might not act the way
you expect.
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