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From: chee77@jetson.uh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Finder crawls during copy of 6000 files
Message-ID: <7031.270029a9@jetson.uh.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 90 09:08:09 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
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When I try to copy a _large_ number of files from one disk to another, 
say 6000 files, the finder will slow to a crawl after 1000 or so are copied.
I have been using retrospect to copy them all into an intermediate archive 
which then can be dearchived to complete the copy, but clearly this is a less
than optimal approach.

Has anyone else run into this problem, and what utilities are available 
which provide an alternative to the finder for this purpose. I tried disktop
4.0, but it seemed to take an extremely long time per file from the start.

Thanks for any assistance,
-Fred
schulz@uh.edu