Command-line tools rule for many reasons, and Robocopy is one of the best ones.

We've set up a new SAN device and are moving our user data to this device, generally one user at a time. We always have used Robocopy to preserve all the ACLs of the files and folders being moved, but ...

But with SMB 2.1 and the new version of Robocopy, full multithreaded operation is supported and we should therefore see better performance in these scenarios. So where does that leave those of us who ...

Windows Explorer does basic file operations just fine. Drag and drop a few files, and they move in an instant. However, if you are moving a large folder with mixed file types, it chokes and slows to a ...