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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Using Teracopy as daily cut/copy paste tool? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Do you think setting teracopy as the default copy paste tool is a smart idea? Even if it is not for large file transfers?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Definitely. I've been using it almost exclusively for years for multi-TB transfers. The only time I use Windows Explorer is when I have small file transfers that I don't really care about.

Whatever you choose to use, be sure you verify and ideally keep a HASH of your transfers for a control.

Always Copy, Never Move! There are those who say moving is okay within the same folder/drive, but odd things can happen even doing that!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Always Copy, Never Move! There are those who say moving is okay within the same folder/drive, but odd things can happen even doing that!

One example being incomplete copies. Now you have two folders neither of which is definitive and that can lead to problems if you're not careful. You also can't compare the two folders afterward to make sure you got a perfect xfer.