a simple thing

I loved sharing stuff (music and movies) with my hosts back in Aus, as I do with my guests here at home. What seems so easy can actually take a while when the sheer amount of data is... huge and spread out through folders and folders. So, when passing stuff from one side to another, every new batch is just passed together with all previous incomplete ones, all through the same "pipe". Baaaaaad! Very bad and stupid how a f**** simple file operation queuing system didn't make its way to any popular OS, Windows, MacOSX or possibly *nix.

After a query to this grand oracle, Google, I stumbled on a couple of possibilities:

• SuperCopier (still in Beta) on SourceForge - had some good promises, but failed to fulfill them when internet access from my browser wasn't possible anymore after installation. Let's treash it and let the next contestant step up!
• TeraCopy - the version for personal use is free and this one at least did not cause any damage when installed. It takes control of file copy/moves and it will just queue one batch operation after the other - it starts the second batch after the first one is done and so on. According to some online comments, this one takes more resources than SuperCopier, but I will stick to it while I can't find anything better.
• CopyHandler - now this one looks reeeeeaaally handy! Download, extract and run it (no installation needed). Right-click the taskbar icon and enable the "Monitor clipboard". Then all is needed is a simple "Ctrl+C" on the files to copy and choose where to put them. This one ranked pretty high on my evaluation because it just needs to be run. Hop, directly into my list of portable apps on my portable disk.

There is also a whole file manager called Frigate that can perform the same tasks and *should* allow to be portable.. but no promises made.

In the end, I am only annoyed that such a queuing system is not OS native. It just makes one of these tools, ONE MORE to have at reach...

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And a dear contributor and friend of mine (check comments) just found another promising piece of software:

• http://www.ffprojects.net/ffcopy/ - Windows Queue File Transfer Manager, and they managed to explain its advantage in simple words: FF Copy is a file queue transfer manager for windows networks. It allows you to add files to a copy/move transfer queue which will be downloaded one after another. This increases speed in comparison to transferring multiple files / folders at the same time - "one after another" (good) vs "all at the same time" (bad)

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PS: My travel after-math post has yet to be written. Getting and incorporating all the stuff I brought just kept my geeky-ish mind busy:)