Q. What is RichCopy?

John Savill

April 24, 2009

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A. Many people have used the RoboCopy command-line utility available in Windows, and perhaps even the RoboCopy GUI, which adds a graphical interface to RoboCopy.

A new utility similar to RoboCopy, RichCopy, was written by Ken Tamaru at Microsoft and enables a multi-threaded file copy approach with huge granularity available for how the copy is performed. You can, for example, preserve certain attributes and pause and resume file copy operations. RichCopy's GUI is shown here.

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You can see this article for more information or simply download the free utility from Microsoft.

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