Post AOAgSyJOoDmVVbs0pc by dd86k@outerheaven.club
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 (DIR) Post #AOAfzhZFz71bBCKY40 by natalie@nya.social
       2022-10-02T22:50:45.300Z
       
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       dude come on how can windows be this bad, this is from a sata3 ssd to nvmethis normally takes a few minutes which is already too much, today it's just deciding to be substantially slowerevery day i'm forced to use this os is purgatory
       
 (DIR) Post #AOAg2wqDed1XQ0oQuO by natalie@nya.social
       2022-10-02T22:51:15.653Z
       
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       the hard drive light isn't even on, this is a modern pc how in the world is a file copy operation blocked on anything other than disk io
       
 (DIR) Post #AOAgSyJOoDmVVbs0pc by dd86k@outerheaven.club
       2022-10-02T22:51:32.168942Z
       
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       @natalie :intel4w: moment
       
 (DIR) Post #AOAgSz2m5W4rmL6FYe by natalie@nya.social
       2022-10-02T22:55:58.806Z
       
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       @dd86k@outerheaven.club there's no intel in this machine lol
       
 (DIR) Post #AOAhjIn4XOrpbr6HGS by trwnh@mastodon.social
       2022-10-02T23:09:32Z
       
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       @natalie is it lots of tiny files? windows tends to choke on those
       
 (DIR) Post #AOAhjJFmodpt2uXD1M by natalie@nya.social
       2022-10-02T23:10:06.108Z
       
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       @trwnh@mastodon.social ye but usually it takes a minute or two which is bad but Acceptable, this was crawling after 5+
       
 (DIR) Post #AOAhsDeL1LSoGuGbvU by phoenix@firebird.zone
       2022-10-02T23:11:53.215265Z
       
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       @natalie it's always choked so hard for me on folders with a lot of small files which is such a pain
       
 (DIR) Post #AOAi1hgSiuXg1lmbs8 by HeNeArXn@chaos.social
       2022-10-02T23:12:51Z
       
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       @natalie as dumb as it sounds (it is), creating an archive (e.g. with 7zip with compression turned off) on the target disk and then unpacking that again can be a lot quicker if you are dealing with many small files. Worth a try
       
 (DIR) Post #AOAi1iD4led7ev2ehs by natalie@nya.social
       2022-10-02T23:13:25.453Z
       
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       @HeNeArXn@chaos.social ive done it a few times before, idk why i didn't think of it this time
       
 (DIR) Post #AOAilqyoUeB4BBNABM by mr64bit@p.mr64.net
       2022-10-02T23:21:58.283462Z
       
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       @natalie You'd think windows would be better at copying lots of small files, given it's made of half a million of them.
       
 (DIR) Post #AOAjaWCZVOVgVQy0Cu by mia@movsw.0x0.st
       2022-10-02T23:13:50.600Z
       
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       @natalie@nya.social defender?
       
 (DIR) Post #AOAjaWnRIK06LmDRfk by natalie@nya.social
       2022-10-02T23:31:00.951Z
       
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       @mia@movsw.0x0.st on, but has been
       
 (DIR) Post #AOBEDiymvg4I3P8A9w by jebug29@mastodon.sdf.org
       2022-10-03T03:53:00Z
       
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       @natalie robocopy is a lifesaver, as it allows you to do actual multithreaded copying in Windows, and it's a built-inhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy